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CAPTAIN WILLIAM WHEAT (81) 



WHEAT GENEALOGY 



A HISTORY 



OF THE 



WHEAT FAMILY IN AMERICA 



WITH A BRIEF 



Account of the Name and Family 
in England and Normandy 



vol. i; 



1903 



Edited and Published by 

SIIyAS C. WHEAT, 9S7 STERLING PI.ACE, BROOKLYN, N. Y 
\\ U.S.A. • 






THE LIBRARY OF 
CONGRESS, 


Two Copies 


Received 


JUL 18 


1903 


Copyright 
CLASS CC 


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XXc. No. 


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COPY 


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Copyright, 1903 
BY 

SILAS C. WHEAT 



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Go ©ur (IDotbers 

we affectionately fceotcate 
tbis volume 



For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 
This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, 

Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 
Nor cast one lo?iging, lingering look behind." 

— Thomas Gray. 



i 



CONTENTS 



Page 

Abbreviations and Plan 6 

Sections 

Introduction i to 18 

Why have a Genealogy ? I 

Birthplace and Kin of the Author 2 

Traditions 3 

Reunions 4 

The Genealogy Suggested . . 5 

Searching for a Lost Pedigree 6 

Noble Ancestors 7 

Other Ancestors 8 

Origin of the name Wheat 9 to 14 

Orthography of Wheat j 7 

Sources of Records 18 

English Records 19 to 60 

Parish Registers 20 

Probate Records 2r 

Herald's College Rolls 22 to 24 

Wheate of Glympton 25 to 40 

Wheat of Retford 41 to 49 

Wheat of East Markham 53 to 60 

Letters from England 50 to 52 

American Records 61 to 173 

Earliest Wheat Immigrants 61 to 69 

Moses Wheat of Concord 70 

Joshua Wheat of Lynn, and of Concord 77 

Dr. Samuel Wheat of Watertown 78 

Dr. Solomon Wheat of W T indham 79 

Dr. Solomon Wheat of Westford 80 

Captain William Wheat of Franklin 81 

Descendants of Captain William Wheat 82 to 173 



ABBREVIATIONS AND SCHEME 



b. = born m. = married 

bap. = baptized rem. = removed 

bu. = buried res. = resides 

d. = died ux. = wife (uxor) 

dau. = daughter w. p. = will proved 

D. L- I. = Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, N. Y. 

Families are numbered consecutively with large figures ; children are 
numbered with small figures. 

A number following a name refers to a section where the name is 
entered again. 

The index refers to the section (paragraph), not to the page. 

To avoid confusion in the index, the introduction and other parts not 
relating to families, have been divided into sections and numbered con- 
secutively with the rest of the work. 



INTRODUCTION 

"Study the past if you would divine the future." — Confucius. 

" An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to 
form and ripen." — Emerson. 

i. « Why have a genealogy ? " I am asked, "Do you think 
there is any property coming to us ?" 

Not for land, not for gold, 
Not for gray castles old 
Have we this story told. 

We, who stand as links between Past and Future, have in- 
scribed in this volume the names and golden deeds of our 
parents that our children may know and practice their 
virtues. To strengthen the bond of friendship, to keep in 
memory the names and virtues of our departed friends, to 
light the path of youth by the lamp of experience, has been 
our aim. 

The genealogy is not mine, but ours. All are cordially 
invited to share the labor of completing it and to participate 
in the satisfaction and pride which it will afford us. I have 
but one wish concerning the genealogy— that it shall be 
worthy of the family. 

I take this opportunity to thank the many friends who have 
so kindly aided me with records and subscriptions. The de- 
lay of publication for five years due to insufficient subscrip- 
tions has been to me a cause of painful regret, since so many 
who gave hearty support to the enterprise have passed away 
without seeing the book in which they were sincerely inter- 
ested. 

2. Birthplace and Kin of the Author.— Captain William 
Wheat (81) removed from Connecticut after the Embargo of 
1 807- 1 809 had ruined the fortunes of New England skippers, 



8 Wheat Genealogy. 

and settled among the hills which separate the sources of 
the Susquehanna from those of the Deleware. Five sons and 
a daughter married and made their homes almost within 
sight of the paternal roof ; and their children, with few excep- 
tions, followed the same example. 

In 1852, the writer was born within three miles of the old 
homestead where Captain Wheat was still living, and where 
his venerable parents, Dr. Solomon and Hannah Wheat 
(80), had died only eleven years before, having spent the last 
eight of their seventy-and-two years of wedded life with their 
son William. I was fourteen years of age when Captain 
Wheat died and was one of the fifth generation of our family 
that had lived in the vicinity. Each man in my paternal line 
saw five generations of his line, counting both ancestors and 
descendants, and two of them saw six generations—a circum- 
stance which greatly favored the handing down of family 
traditions. Not only my relatives, but the neighbors as well, 
who were my seniors by half a century, often entertained me 
with tales of my ancestors. 

3. Traditions. — Few and vague were the accounts of an 
earlier generation than that of Dr. Solomon and Hannah 
Wheat. However, some hesitatingly said that he was the 
only son of Dr. Solomon Wheat of Boston whose wife was 
Peggy Green (79 B) ; son of Dr. Solomon Wheat from 
England to Boston whose wife was Betsy Sullivan, a sister of 
the man who settled and gave his name to Sullivan's Island in 
Charleston Harbor, S. C. ; that a brother of the first Dr. 
Solomon went from Boston to the South, and another brother 
returned to England or died young ; that the father of these 
brothers, a London merchant, was the first man to receive the 
name Wheat, having been found, when an infant, in a wheat- 
field belonging to the Prince of Wales, and was named, 
brought up and educated by the Prince, but was dismissed 
from court for claiming to be the son of the Prince ; and that 
this progenitor w 7 as a Welshman. 

It was generally accepted that we were the only Wheat 
family in the world, although a Mr. Wheat of Illinois and 



Traditions. 9 

another of Virginia had been reported to our colony ; "but 
probably they died young or, if married, had left daughters 
only." 

Traditions, even when without foundation, are yet of value 
to the genealogist. If widely separated families of unknown 
origin have the same traditions, this fact indicates a common 
origin of the families and may lead to the discovery of a com- 
mon ancestor. Traditions are often well founded, even when 
generations covering centuries of time have been dropped 
from the tale. It often happens that traditions belonging to 
a maternal ancestor are ascribed to the paternal line. 

The tradition that the first Wheat was a Welshman prob- 
ably arose from ignorance of the application of the title, 
Prince of Wales. 

4. Wheat Reunions. — As our colony gradually spread into 
the adjoining towns it finally became difficult to keep up even 
a yearly visit to each of the cousins ; so a Wheat picnic, or 
family reunion, was held at the Captain William Wheat 
homestead, or more commonly called the Bolles homestead. 

The reunion has since become an annual event, and has 
been held at the residences of the following members of the 
family : 

Aug. 14, 1885 Abial Drake Franklin, N. Y. 

July 29, 1886 Col. Sylvester Wheat Franklin, N. Y. 

Aug. 11, 1887 Hartson L. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 

8, 1888 Hartson D. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 

21, 1889 Hartson L. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 

7, 1890 George W. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 

5, 1891 Abial Drake Franklin, N. Y. 

11, 1892 Almiron G. Wheat Sidney Center, N. Y. 

9, 1893 Miss Lemira F. Wheat Franklin, N. Y. 

9, 1894 Virgil D. Osborn Treadwell, N. Y. 

7, 1895 Porter A. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 

13, 1896 Dwight B. Drake Franklin, N. Y. 

19, 1897 Leroy Evans Franklin, N. Y. 

30, 1899 J. Frank Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 

10, 1900 Manzer Smith Treadwell, N. Y. 

8, 1901 Almiron G. Wheat ... .... Sidney Center, N. Y. 

20,1902 Porter A. Wheat Treadwell, N. Y. 



io Wheat Genealogy. 

At the first reunion four generations were present, num- 
bering in all ninety-one descendants of Captain Wheat. The 
oldest was Silas Wheat (82), aged ninety-two, and the youngest, 
Howard Irving Wheat (91-3), aged fourteen months. The 
former related the adventures of the journey of two hundred 
miles through the forest with the ox-cart which brought his 
mother and three younger brothers and the household goods 
from Connecticut, his father and a younger brother walking 
all the way with him. He was the guide, having made the 
same trip a year earlier with his grandfather Bolles (81). 

With great earnestness he exhorted us to practice every 
virtue, especially honesty and truth, assuring us that by 
honesty our family had been established, had maintained an 
honorable standing in the community, and had increased 
remarkably in numbers. 

5. The Genealogy Suggested— At this first reunion my 
mother expressed a wish that some one would write a gene- 
alogy of the family. Her remark seemed to be addressed to 
me, and I at once began collecting material. But on seeking 
for more definite information regarding the ancestors of Dr. 
Solomon Wheat (80), I was told that, " like Melchizedek, he 
was without father or mother or beginning of days." The 
traditions seemed to have been forgotten in a day, or to have 
been withdrawn from publication until the genealogy should 
appear. 

Complete family records of the descendants of Captain 
William Wheat (81) were soon collected, but, owing to unex- 
pected difficulties the matter was dropped until 1894, when I 
determined that the genealogy must be finished. Then began 
the search for other branches of the family, and for the 
earliest Wheat ancestor. 

6. Searching for a Lost Pedigree. — There is a fascination 
in this search for a lost pedigree. As the angler, intoxicated 
with the delight of landing the speckled trout and stimulated 
with the feverish hope of taking the largest fish ever caught, 
pursues the stream from pool to pool over rocks and fallen 



Searching for a Lost Pedigree. ii 

trees, through briers and swamps, forgetful of distance, of set- 
ting sun or empty lunch-bag ; so the genealogist, having 
picked up an ancestral thread, follows it with an infatuation 
that lends patience to unravel the tangled mazes and to search 
for the broken ends and missing fragments which will unite 
into a continuous pedigree. 

Great is his disappointment if the work must be given over 
before the line has been reconstructed to the period when 
family names first became hereditary; and great is the tempta- 
tion to follow the example of the bootless angler who returns 
by way of the village market and buys the finest specimen on 
the fishstand to delight the eyes of his friends at home ; for in 
those antiquarian pools, the Saxon and Norman records, one 
may find a name to his liking and then invent a process by 
which it became changed to his present name. In this way, 
with an occasional fc ' said-to-be," may be constructed a pedi- 
gree leading back to some knight who fought at Hastings in 
the year 1066. 

7. Our Claim to Noble Ancestors. — In the search for the 
progenitor of the Wheat line, we should not lose sight of our 
other ancestors. Our mothers' parents are as near of kin to 
us as are our fathers', and should be of equal interest. When 
it happens, as it often does, that one's only ancestors of dis- 
tinction are to be found in maternal lines, these lines are fol- 
lowed out as faithfully as are the paternal ones. 

But one who thus probes the centuries for all his progenitors 
is soon appalled at the multitude of his forefathers and fore- 
mothers, and begins to wonder how many there were of Adam 
and Eve. The whole scene is changed from a world peopled 
by the descendants of one pair to a world of one inhabitant 
descended from millions of ancestors. In the present stands 
himself, the individual. In the first generation, counting 
from the present backward, are his two parents; in the second, 
his four grandparents ; in the third, his eight great-grand- 
parents ; in the fourth, his sixteen great-great-grandparents, 
and so on to infinity, except where the number is decreased by 
inter-marriage of relatives. 



12 Wheat Genealogy. 

Twenty-five generations, allowing three to a century, have 
lived since hereditary names came into general use among the 
nobility and the better class of yeomen in England and 
Normandy. This would give a person of the present day 
thirty-three million five hundred fifty-four thousand four hun- 
dred thirty-two (33.554,432) ancestors, all of one generation 
of the period 1066 to 1100, provided no inter-marriage be- 
tween relatives, however distant, had taken place. 

It is estimated that England had at that period a population 
of about two million Saxons, one million five hundred thou- 
sand Celtic people, a few thousand Danes and Normans. The 
latter were re-info reed by such numbers of immigrants from 
Normandy that the two millions of inhabitants of that country 
must be included in the total number of persons among whom 
any American of English parentage may search for ancestors. 
The total, five million five hundred thousand, is only one-sixth 
of the number of ancestors to which he is entitled by the ratio 
of increase. Among the five and a half millions were princes, 
earls and knights ; and he who delights in noble ancestors 
should not be denied the privilege of claimimg descent from 
some of them. But I beg him to remember the words of Sir 
T. Overbury : "He who has nothing to boast of but his 
ancestry, is like a potato ; the only good belonging to him 
is underground " 

8. Our Other Ancestors. — In 1066, for every person of 
noble birth, there were hundreds of menials held at less value 
than hawk or hound. Since that time many noble families 
have declined, while many individuals have risen from the 
menial class to the highest respectability. The early migra- 
tions brought together on English soil Dane, Norman and 
Saxon ; and the later migration to this continent mingled the 
product of this fusion with the sons of other countries. Thus, 
families once socially separated as widely as serf from prince, 
and geographically as remote as Scandinavia from France, 
have united in marriage, giving to their posterity an ancestry 
which embraces every class of the ancient inhabitants of the 
British Islands, Denmark and Normandy. 



Our Other Ancestors. 13 

The American of English parentage can not be sure that 
every parent among the five-and-a-half millions was not his 
ancestor. Can he safely deny at least one-fourth of them ? 
And since there were in all this number hardly five hundred 
nobles, and only three or four thousand knights, he should 
boast with moderation of his " blue blood." For every drop 
of it has he not a gallon from the peasant current ? 

9. Origin of the Name " Wheat." — Who would doubt the 
proposition that our family name was borrowed from the grain, 
wheat f It seems quite as deserving of credence as does the 
belief that Miller, Baker, Hill, Waters, Ford, Lion, Duke, 
Page, Long, and Fisher were first adopted because they fitted 
the occupation, office, place of residence, or some personal 
characteristic of the ones to whom they were applied. But a 
writer on surnames claims that Wheat is a corruption of the 
ancient name Waite, or de la Waite, the watchman or police- 
man. ' Another author says that Wheat is derived from the 
ancient name Wihtebrod, which became Whitebread, then 
Wheatbread, and finally White and Wheat. Both of these 
theories seem plausible, but the name Waite is still in use, 
and, if changed, would quite as likely become Watt or Wade 
as Wheat ; while Wihtebrod, which signified white bread, 
would become White, rather than Wheat. 

10. Hwaete and Ble. — The name of the grain was not 
written wheat until near the close of the 13th century. For- 
merly it was written hwcete by the Saxons, and ble by the 
Normans, who spoke French. I have not found the name 
Hwaete in early English records, therefore conclude that 
there was no Saxon W T heat family prior to 1250. But the 
noble families and the better class of yeomen had adopted 
family names long before that period, namely, from 900 to 
1200. Hence it follows, that, if our name was borrowed by a 
Saxon, directly from the grain, our family is not older than 
1250, and the progenitor of our line belonged to the menial 
class. 



14 Wheat Genealogy. 

ii. Ble translated Wheat. — The French ble (wheat) was 
used by the Normans as a family name at an early period. 
1180, Unfredus de Ble resided in Normandy; 1192, Robert 
de Blee in County Stafford, England; and Galfridusde Blie 
in Lancaster. From " The Norman People." 

From the " Armorial Universel." — "Ble (du) en Bour- 
gogne. De gueules a trois chevrons d'or." 

From the " Nouvelle Biographie Generate. " — "Ble 
(Nicolas du) marquis d'Uxelles, marechal de France, ne le 
24 Janvier 1652, mort le 10 avril 1730." 

To have become so widely spread before 1192 the name 
probably originated as early as the year 1000, and was car- 
ried abroad by the migration that poured into England from 
1040 to 1200. Among the Normans in England the name 
gradually lost its pure French orthography, and is said, 
finally, to have become Blake and Bleay. 

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries many Nor- 
mans are said to have translated their names to the Saxon 
equivalent ; as, Petit, Little ; Burnet, Brown ; le Blanc, 
White; leVenur, Hunter; Faber, Smith; Vulpis, Fox; 
le Cerf , Hart ; le Fort, Strong. 

It is possible that some Mr. Ble took the name Wheat. It 
may be a mere coincidence that the earliest recorded Wheat 
family should dwell in the same county where the de Blee 
family lived 1192, but it favors the theory of translation 
from Ble to Wheat. See section 19. 

This theory is supported by a tradition preserved by the 
descendants of Dr. Samuel Wheat (78) residing at Cayuga, 
N. Y. 

Tradition. — The king of France offered a prize to the one 
who should produce the best crop of wheat. The successful 
competitor bore the name Samuel. The king gave him the 
surname Wheat and an embroidered cradle blanket to descend 
in his family from generation to generation, to the son named 
Samuel. 

12. The Garb. — The Wheat families of England in selecting 
insignia for their arms chose the garb (wheat-sheaf) and ears 



The Garb. 15 

of wheat, as if they believed the name was that of the grain, 
and felt honored by it. If the name had come from de laWaite 
or Wihtebrod it seems probable that, on finding they had 
reached a significant word of very different meaning from 
that of the original name, they would not have stopped there, 
but would have added a syllable to destroy, or at least modify, 
its significance. 

13. Humble Origin no Shame. — If records should be 
found showing that our progenitor belonged to that despised 
and menial class that had no family names until the end of 
the 13th century when the word wheat, in its present ortho- 
graphy, first appeared in our language, would this discredit 
him or his descendants? Would it not be the more honor to 
him and his posterity that they had risen to a worthy station, 
rather than, being descended from an earl, they had become 
peasants ? 

" The rank is but the guinea stamp ; 

The man's the gowd for a' that." — Bnims. 

To receive the name Wheat before the 15th century was no 
mean distinction. Wheat was very rare and much sought for. 
Its cultivation was the particular care of princes and nobles. 
Until about the year 1700, none but the wealthy could afford 
to eat wheat. No common tenant was entrusted with the 
care of this precious grain. Kings and lords sought out their 
most successful yeomen for this responsibility. 

From 900 to 1400 the Saxons of England gradually adopted 
family names in place of the old surnames. 

It is easy to believe that a yeoman noted for his success in 
wheat culture should choose or receive the surname Wheat, 
and his sons adopt it after him, thus making it a hereditary 
name. 

14. Possibility of Independent Wheat Families. — There 
may have been several different and unrelated Wheat families 
in England at the time of the settlement of Virginia and New 
England. They could have sprung from at least three sources : 
from the du Ble family by translation of the name ; from the 



1 6 Wheat Genealogy. 

humble peasants of the 14th century by adoption of the name 
of the grain ; or from some ancient family by corruption of 
the paternal name. 

15. Preserving Our Identity by a Genealogy. — The pro- 
cess of adopting names is still going on. Many immigrants, 
soon after their arrival in this country, take American names. 
I do not know that any of them have borrowed ours ; but 
there is noway to prevent them if they choose to do so. The 
only way to know who is entitled to the name is to make a 
complete genealogy of the family as now constituted, and 
keep it revised from generation to generation. 

16. Negroes Named Wheat. — After the emancipation of 
1863, many negroes took their master's name or the names of 
noted persons, as Washington or Jefferson. About ten years 
ago, seeing the name of a certain Miss Wheat in a northern 
city directory, I wrote to her address for data for the gene- 
alogy, and received the following : " I think I am not one of 
the Wheats you are looking for. My mother was a planta- 
tion slave in Georgia. Who my father was, Lord o' glory 
only knows ! ' ' 

17. Orthography of Our Name. — In early times spelling 
was not uniform. Clerks of the highest courts sometimes 
wrote the same name with two or more different orthographies 
in a single affidavit. Each clerk recording vital statistics had 
his own way of spelling, and sometimes the same clerk wrote 
the same name with a different spelling for each new entry. 
But our name was always written with the same spelling as 
was the name of the grain. 

In 1659 the menu at Harvard College contained " wheatt 
mealiy The inventory of the estate of Abijah Savage, who 
died 1669, contains " Habijah Savage, Indian wheatte, sope, 
thred, hatte, nailes" [Sibley's Harvard Graduates.] 

The records of the family of Moses Wheat of Concord 
(70) contain eleven different spellings : 

Wheat, Wheeatt, Whet, Wheatt, 

Wheate, Wheet, Whett, Weat. 

Wheates, Wheett, Weet, 



Our Name. 17 

Names containing the word Wheat found in city direc- 
tories : 

Wheatall, Wheathall, Wheatley, Wheatlye, 

Wheatbread, Wheathill, Wheatlie, Wheaton, 

Wheatcroft, Wheatland, Wheatling, Wheatonhall, 

Wheatear, Wheatleigh, Wheatly, Wheatstone, 
Wheater. 

The name has two authentic orthographies, Wheate and 
Wheat. The final e comes down from a period when wheat 
and many other nouns had this remnant of the old Saxon in- 
flections. Its retention by some branches through so many 
generations is a mark of that conservatism which preserves the 
customs of society. The dropping of the final e in conformity 
with the new spelling of wheat denotes that radicalism which 
insures progress by occasionally breaking the rules of con- 
servatism. 

To introduce any form not employed for the name of the 
grain is to mutilate a fair and honorable name. It comes to 
us with all the fragrance of the fields, with song of birds and 
sparkle of fountains in the sunbeam. It speaks of a success 
in husbandry that won the favor of princes. To change it 
until its significance is lost is to destroy its worth and rob it 
of every charm. 

18. Sources of Records. — American records relating to an 
earlier date than the year 1825 are for the most part from 
original sources, — from town, county, state and church manu- 
script records entered at the time the events occurred, or from 
authentic copies of such records. Bond's Watertown and 
Savage's Genealogical Dictionary do not present a true history 
of the Wheats of Concord and their immediate kin. I visited 
the places where these people lived, trod the soil they once 
trod, identified the ruins of the old chimney-places, copied the 
inscriptions on their tombstones, collected every record relat- 
ing to them that I could find, and, returning to my home, 
arranged the confused mass in order. I was able not only to 
construct the family chart almost entire, but to form an inti- 
mate acquaintance with the families that lived from 1640 to 
1800. 



i8 Wheat Genealogy. 

The recent records, those relating to Captain William 
Wheat (81) and his descendants, were sent me by some mem- 
ber of each family. 

The source of the English records is shown in each section 
or pedigree. 



THE WHEAT FAMILY IN ENGLAND 

' ' The fairest ancestry on earth 

Without desert is poor, 
And ev'ry deed of former worth 

Is but a claim for more." — Hannah More. 

19. Wheat as a family name was first used in England. 
From the pedigree of Wheate of Coventry (23) allowed by 
the Herald's Visitation, 1619, it appears that William, junior, 
of Coventry, was then twenty-five years of age, and that his 
grandfather, Henry of Walsall, was the fifth generation that 
the family could name to the deputies. Allowing three 
generations to the century, the first of this line was born 1394 ; 
and, assuming that his home was at Walsall, co. Stafford, the 
earliest Wheat record is from the county where Robert de Blee 
(11) dwelt 1 192. De Blee I take to be a careless orthography 
for du Ble= Wheat. Walsall and Coventry are near Birming- 
ham, or midway between London and Liverpool. From this 
elevated region streams flow outward in all directions to the 
sea, making it probable that, before the day of railways, the 
migrations of the people would not follow any one direction 
or channel, but would diverge to all points of the compass, 
following the streams for the sake of the better roads and 
greater protection from robbers afforded by the denser popu- 
lation. 

By 1619, the name Wheat was known in counties Stafford, 
Gloucester, Lincoln, Berks, Middlesex, and Nottingham. 
From the records already discovered, the distribution is no 
wider and the number of families no greater than should be 
expected of the descendants of one Wheat ancestor residing 




ttt 

ARMS OF WHEATE OF COVENTRY 



Family Name. 19 

at Walsall, 1250 to 1300. It is not improbable that a Norman 
landlord in this remote place should have found it conducive to 
longevity to feign himself a Saxon, or that such a move at 
least would improve his financial and social standing. 

These, and other circumstances, favor the theory that a 
Mr. de Blee translated his name to Wheat. On the other hand 
the Saxons of this vicinity may not have adopted names so 
early as did their countrymen along the Thames. Some 
Saxon tiller of the soil may have been the Wheat progenitor. 
The following records from England are only a small part of 
the known records of the family in that country. I hope that 
some one in closer touch with the records and with the living 
representatives of those families will prepare a complete 
history of Wheat in England. 

20. Parish Registers — By injunction of Henry VIII., 
issued September 29, 1538, a register of baptisms, marriages 
and burials was required to be kept in every parish in his 
dominions. From published copies of some of these registers 
the following entries are taken. 

1605, January 15, Joan Wheate and Thos. Wilson were mar- 
ried at St. Mary's, Whitechapel. 
1616, , John Wheath was buried, St. Botolph's register, 

Bishopsgate. 
1609, September 11, John Wheate, servant to John Hamner, 

buried at St. Mary's. Aldermary. 
1636, December 1, Thomas Wheate, buried at St. James 

Church, Clerkenwall. 
1669, April 4, Richard Wheate, son of Richard and Elizabeth, 

baptized, St. Botolph, Bishopsgate. 
1687, March 20, Phebey Wheate, daughter of Henary and 

Phebey, baptized at Christ Church, Newgate. 
1692, August 20, Richard Wheate of Paddington, co. Midd., 

farmer, age forty, married Elizabeth Hampton. Register 

of Vicar-General. 
1687, May 24, Thomas Wheate and Anne Sawbridge were 

married. Register of Vicar- General. 
1709. June 3, Samuel Wheat, buried, St. Botolph. 



20 



Wheat Genealogy. 



1748, March 11, Ann, Daughter of Jeremiah and Mary 
Wheate, baptized, First Church, Newgate. 

1742, September 26, Benj. Wheate and Mary Chamberlain 
were married at St. George's Chapel, Hyde Park corners. 

1746, March 15, Mrs. Elizabeth Wheat and Wm. Bearman 
were married at St. George's Chapel, Hyde Park corners. 

1785, January 30, James Wheat and Sarah Reed were mar- 
ried at St. George's, Hanover Square. 

1786, May 1, Samuel Wheat and Rebecca Adams were mar- 
ried at St. George's, Hanover Square. 



21. Index to Wills. 



1557 Henry Wheate, of Stow ; Wills of Glouc, 1541-1650. 

1565 Nicholas Wheate, of Theale ; Wills of Berks, 1508-1652. 

1579 John Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

1579 John Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

1583 Thomas Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

1583 John Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

161 2 Avery Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

161 2 Richard Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

1632 Nicholas Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

1639 Richard Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

1644 William Wheate, of Tilehurst ; 

1605 Wheate, of Beenham ; 

1619 Nicholas Wheate, of Stratfield ; 

1639 Richard Wheate, of Theale ; 

1665 Nicholas Wheate, of Theale ; 

1581 Henry Wheat ; Wills of Lichfield, 1516-1652. 

1 60 1 Oliver Wheat ; " " 

1611 Agnes Wheat ; " " 

1653 Richard Wheate witnessed a Will, January 20th, at Ropesley, co. 
Lincoln. 

22. Herald's College was established 1483, under the 
patronage of Richard III., to hear applications, grant or deny 
the privilege of bearing arms, preserve the pedigrees of fami- 
lies entitled to bear arms, and other services calculated to 
regulate the institution of heraldry. The days of chivalry 
were long past ; the knight in mail, the tournament, the gor- 



Herald's College. 21 

geous pageant were but memories, still the passion for dis- 
play reigned in the human heart as of old. Filial duty moved 
each son as he consigned his father's ashes to the tomb, to 
guard with jealous care every token of honors held, or deeds 
of valor done by that sire. Weapons, mail, trophies of battle 
or of the chase, and sacred relics brought home from the 
crusades were carefully preserved. Perhaps the most valued 
of these treasures were the emblems, or decorations, which 
his chivalrous ancestor wore on shield and helmet, and which 
served to distinguish him from others when clad in mail. 

The decoration upon the shield, called arms, was also 
embroidered on the sur-coat worn over the mail to protect the 
wearer from the blaze of the sun, hence the expression coat of 
arms. On the helmet was the crest. 

A family possessed of such an heirloom coming down from 
the time of Cceur de Lion had cause to be proud of its arms. 
But families newly risen to wealth or honors coveted this par- 
ticular badge of distinction, and began to adopt arms, some- 
times appropriating, with slight modification, the arms of 
some old family. This abuse led to the appointment of the 
King at Arms, and the Knight of the Garter to regulate the 
institution of Heraldry. 

Two Wheate pedigrees from Herald's College are copied 
below (see 23 and 24). The terms used in blazing arms are 
Latin or French. Those used in the Wheat arms are vert = 
green ; fess = a sash or band ; dancette = coarsely indented ; 
or = gold ; in chief = upper part of shield ; of the second = 
second material named, i. e. or ; couped— cut smoothly off. 

In a black and white picture of a coat of arms, green is 
represented by diagonal lines, and gold by dots, as shown in 
23 and 24. 



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25. PEDIGREE OF WHEATE OF GLYMPTON 

copied from the register in the manor house with slight addi- 
tions from other sources. 

I am indebted to Mr. Frank Henry Barnett (37-2) for the 
copy of the register. It begins with Henry Wheate of 
Walsall. The Herald's College roll (23) carries the pedigree 
back four generations earlier. The two records joined, give 
a continuous pedigree of fifteen generations. Estimating from 
the earliest date, "William of Coventry (23), age twenty- 
five in the year 1619," the progenitor of this line was born 
between 1350 and 1400. For arms see 23 and 24. 

26. Wheate of Walsall, co. Stafford. 
Henry Wheate (23) of Walsall, county Stafford. 

1. William (27) 5. Anna (40) 

2. Thomas 6. Thomasine 

3. Edmond (38) 7. Johannes 

4. Isabella (39) 

27. Wheate of Coventry. 

William Wheate ( 26-1 ) of Coventry married Anne, 
daughter of Adrian Quiney of Stratford-on-Avon, and widow 
of Richard Bay ley of Lichfield. 

1. William (28), bap. at St. Michael's, Coventry, Aug. 4, 
1594, living 1657. 

28. Wheate of Glympton. 

William Wheate ( 27-1 ) of Coventry, and a student at the 
Middle Temple, before 1634 removed to Glympton, co. Oxford; 
married while a student in the Temple, Feb. 24, 1624, 
Elizabeth Stone, d. 1657, eldest daughter of Thomas Stone 
of London, merchant. Letters written by Mr. Wheate are 



26 Wheat Genealogy. 

still preserved at Glympton. He addressed the dean of Salis- 
bury on behalf of Thomas Stone, who had been accused of 
inclining toward Puritanism. 
i. Anne (29). 



2. 


Isabella. 




3- 


William, 


only son living 1634. 


4- 


Elizabeth, 


m. 1652, William Jumper. 


5- 


Thomas (30), 


d. May 14, 1668. 


6. 


John, 


b. 1 $42. fc 


7- 


William, 


b. 1648, d. infant. 


8. 


Martha, 


b. Jan. 17, 1655, m. Benj. Skutt of 



London, merchant. 

20. Thorold of Harmiston. 

Anne Wheate (28-1 ) married Charles Thorold of Har- 
miston, Lincoln, and of London, merchant, served for Alder- 
man, d. Nov. 13, 1691. 

1. Thomas, merchant, d. at Smyrna. 

2. Sir Charles, Alderman of London, knighted 

1704, d. 1709. 

3. George, the heir. 

4. Samuel. 

5. William. 

30. Thomas Wheate of Glympton. 

Thomas Wheate ( 28-5 ) of Glympton, High Sheriff of 
Oxfordshire 1665, married Frances Jenkinson, d. Dec. 13, 
1706, daughter of Sir Robert Jenkinson of Walcot, Oxon., 
baronet, and his wife Mary (dau. of Sir John Bankes of 
Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy, co. Dorset, knight, Lord 
Chief Justice of Common Pleas, whose wife immortalized her- 
self by her heroic defense of Corfe Castle.) 

1. Sir Thomas (31), b. Sept. 6, 1667, d. Aug. 25, 1721. 

2. Sarah, d. 1683, m. 1675, John Morse of 

Wickselme (?) co. Gloucester. (Bigland's Hist. 
Gloucester, v. 1, p. 162). 




ARMS OF WHEATE OF GLYMPTON 



Sir Thomas of Glympton. 27 

31. WHKATB OF GlyYMPTON. 

Sir Thomas Wheate ( 30-1 ) of Glympton, member Par- 
liament for Woodstock 1689, 1708 and 17 10, High Sheriff of 
Oxford 1696, created baronet, Ma}' 6, 1696 ; married Anne 
Sawbridge, d. June 13, 17 19, daughter and co-heir of George 
Sawbridge of London who served as Alderman. 

1. Frances, b. 1688, d. 1730, m. 1705, Sir 

Francis Page, knight, Judge of the King's Bench, 
d. 1730. 

2. Anne, b. 1692, d. Jan. 31, 1724, aged 32. 

3. Sir Thomas (32), b. 1693, d. May 1, 1746, aged 52. 

4. Sir George (34), b. 1695, <*• June 5, 1751, aged 55. 

32. Wheate of Glympton. 

Sir Thomas Wheate (31-3 ) of Glympton, storekeeper of 
the ordnance 1717-1721, M. P. for Woodstock 1724, married 
Mary Gould, b. 1705, d. Oct. 21, 1765, aged 60, daughter of 
Thomas (or Henry ?) Gould of Oakend, Bucks. 

1. Frances, d. 1795, m. 1776, Edward Burville of Box- 

ley, Kent. 

2. Mary (33), d. April 4, 1803. 

3. Sarah, b. 1730, d. June 13, 1805, aged 75, not m. 

4. Anne, d. June 1, 1807, aged 74, not m. 

33' Lloyd of Brudenham. 

flary Wheate (32-2) married March 31, 1760, Richard 
Lloyd of Brudenham, Bucks, who died 1796. Their son, 
Francis Sackville Lloyd, took the name Wheate in order to 
inherit the title of baronet and the manor of Glympton, but 
died 1 81 2, four years before the direct Wheate heirs became 
extinct. He was High Sheriff of Oxford, 18 12. 

34- Wheate of Glympton. 

Sir George Wheate (31-4 ) of Glympton, barrister at law, 
Banbury records, married A vice Ack worth, living 1790 and 



28 Wheat Genealogy. 

lady of the manor of Lechlade, daughter of Sir Jacob Ack- 
worth, knight, surveyor of the navy. (Bigland's Hist. Glouc., 
v. 2, p. 142). 

1. Sir George, b. 1744, d. Jan. 26, 1760, lieutenant R. A. 

2. Sir Jacob, d. 1783, captain in the royal navy, in com- 

mand of H. M.>S. Cerebus at New York during 
the Revolution; married at New York, 1783, Maria 
Shaw, daughter of David Shaw of New York. 
Sir Jacob died about three months after his mar- 
riage. 

3. Rev. Sir John Thomas, rector of Great Penton and vicar 

of Lechlade, Glouc, died unmarried, July 14, 
1 8 16, and the title of baronet ceased for want of 
male heirs. 

4. Esther Henrietta, d. 1799. 

5. Avice (35). 

35- Barnett of Glympton. 

Avice Wheate ( 34-5 ) married Benjamin Barnett who 

died 1822. 

1. George Henry (36), b. 1780, d. 1872. 

2. Robert. 

36. Barnett of Glympton. 

George Henry Barnett ( 35-1 ) married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Stratford Canning, and sister of Viscount Strat- 
ford de Redcliffe. 

1. Henry (37), b. 1815, d. 1896. 

2. Charles George, b. 181 6, d. 1896, m. and resided at 

Ascot. 

37- Barnett of Glympton. 

Henry Barnett (36-1 ) of Glympton married 1838, Emily 
Anne Stratton, b. 1816 ; d. 1883. 



Edmond of Coventry. 29 

1. George Wheate, b. 1841, died 1878. 

2. Frank Henry, b. 1850, m. 1878 Frances Mary Davies, 

daughter of Henry Tudor Davies, and have George 
Henry, b. 1880. 

3. Herbert, b. 1851, vicar Bracknell, Berks. 

4. Walter Stratford, b. 1853, d. 1861. 

5 to 8. Four daughters, names not on copy of register. 

38. Wheate of Coventry. 



Edmond Wheate 1 
Gareway. 


( 26-3 ) of Coventry married Isabella 


1. 
2. 
3- 
4- 

r 


Anne, 

Alice, 

Susan, 

Martha, 

Maria, 

Prudence. 


m, 
m. 
m. 
m. 
m. 


William Seaney. 
John Armson. 
Richard Murdock. 
Henry Cruchloe. 


5« 

6. 


JVcIIipc. 


7- 

8. 

9- 
10. 


Joseph. 
Benjamin 
Jeremy. 
Samuel. 







39- Chudlowe. 
Isabella Wheate ( 26-4 ) married William Chudlowe. 

1. Judith, m. William Mortone. 

2. Sarah, m. John Stone. 

3. Anne. 

4. Eliza. 

40. Dighton. 

Anne Wheate (26-5 ) married Thomas Dighton. 

1. Jobe. 4. Martha, m. Foote. 

2. John. 5. Anne, m. Barnabee. 

3. Thomas. 6. Sarah. 



30 Wheat Genealogy 



41. PEDIGREE OF WHEAT OF RETFORD 
from a family history published by John B. Wlieat, Esq. 
The book is entitled Wheat, and bears date 1893. A f ew 
records of later date have been added. The family bears arms 
like those of the family at Glympton (24). 

42. Wheat of Retford. 

Thomas Wheat of Retford, co. Notts., Mercator Gener., 
buried December 1, 1727. 

1. Thomas, (43), bap. Dec, 3, 1703. 

2. John, (49), bap. March 5, 1705, bu. July 5, 1756. 

3. Dorothy, bap. Feb. 12, 1706, d. infancy. 

4 and 5, twins. Dorothy and Ann, bap. March 18, 17 10, one 
of whom (?) m. Mr. Cockshutt and had a son 
James. 

43- Wheat of Retford. 

Thomas Wheat of Retford ( 42-1 ) married Ann, daughter 
of Rev. Thomas Cockshutt of Cawthorne, Yorks. 

1. James (44), d. Jan. 24, 1805. 

2. Thomas, b. and d. 1728. 

3. Ann, m. Thomas Sambourne. 

4. Mary, bap. December 8, 1731, m. Tho. Wells 

of London, d. 1790. 
5 to 9 died in infancy. 

10. Edward, b. April 29, 1741. 

11. William, bap. March 30, 1741-2. 

12. Clifton, b. and d. 1744. 

13. Edward, bap. Nov. 9, 1745. 

44- Wheat of Sheffield. 

James Wheat ( 43-1 ) of Norwood Hall, Sheffield, married 
Sarah Milnes, b. 1747, d. August 19, 1810, only daughter 
and heiress of John Milnes of Newark-on-Trent. 



James of Sheffield. 31 

1. Sarah, b. May 4, 1773, d. June 30, 1846, m. September 

16, 1808, Godfrey Sykes, b. 1772, d. December 31, 
1828, and had Elizabeth who m. 1835 John Henry 
Cooper and had Charles John who m. 1862, 
Catharine Heath and had Godfrey Chas., Catharine 
E. (m, Capt. Ed. Devon Caired), Francis John, 
and four daughters. 

2. Ann, b. 1774. d. 1775. 

3. Mary, b. 1776, d. 1837, not married. 

4. Eliza, b. 1778, d. 1865, not married. 

5. James, b. 1779, d. 1855. 

6. Frances, b. Aug. 2, 1780, d. May io, 1846, m. Aug. 

12, 1 8 14, Skinner Wells, and had Fanny, Mary 
and James Clifton. 

7. John (45), b. Oct. 25, 1783, d. Oct. 7, 1868. 

8. Thomas Clifton, b. Dec. 14, 1785, d. May 26, 1836, 

m. and had three sons, all d. without issue. 

9. Henry, b. Nov. 24, 1787, d. Oct. 19, 1852. 
10. Carlos Cony (47), b. Dec. 12, 1792, d. Oct. 28, 1873. 



45- Wheat of Sheffield. 

John Wheat ( 44-7 ) of Norwood Hall, Sheffield, married 
Aug. 23, 1823, Elizabeth Sanderson, d. December 31, 1880, 
daughter of John of York. 

1. John James (46), b. Jan. 31, 1825. 

2. Sarah Milnes. b. Jan. 24, 1827, m. Oct. 11, 

1855, Henry Waring and had Maude Marian, b. 

1856, m. 1886, Thomas Baker; Edith Elizabeth, 
b. 1857 ( m - l8 9 I Chas. L. Sanson, have John 
Henry, b. 1892); Rosamond Ruth, b. 1858 ; Wm. 
W., b. i860 (m. 1882 Annie S. Scobell and have 
Melloney May, Chas. Hy., Irene M.); Alice Ada, 
b. 1862 ; and Beatrice Bertha, b. 1866. 

3. Elizabeth Sykes, d. 1864. 



32 Wheat Genealogy. 

4. Godfrey Charles, b. June 12, 1831, m. June 20, 1865, 
Laura Georgiana Roworth and have Charles 
Templar, b. 1866; Frederick S., b. 1868; Herbert 
C.,b. 1877. 

46. Wheat of Sheffield. 
John James Wheat ( 45-1 ) of Norwood Hall, married 
September 13, 1855, Mary Allatt Bristowe. 

1. James Clifton, b. Dec 27, 1856. 

2. John Bristowe, b. Aug. 27, 1858. 

3. Mary Elizabeth, b. Aug. 9, 1859, d. Feb. 3. 1902, 

m. Oct. 21, 1880, Rev. Bernard Edward Wat- 
kins, Jr. , d. 1888 had Bernard, d. 1890; Cecil 
Ambrose, b. Nov. 22, 1882, and Dorothy Isabel, 
b. Oct. 18, 1883. 

4. Henry A., b. Aug. 26, i860. 

5. Thomas Eustace, b. Feb. 21, 1868, m. Jan. 23, 1889, 

Ellen Parker Brown of Melbourne, Victoria, and 
have John Henry, b. Jan. 14, 1890, deceased ; 
Ernest, b. 1901. 

6. Charles Francis, b. Feb. 6, 1868. 

7. Gerard Stephenson, b. July 30, 1868, m. April 19, 

1890, Jane Alice Nesbit Harrison and have John 
Harrison, b. Aug. 3, 1893. 

8. Frances Augusta, b. Aug. 9, 1866. 

9. Mabel Grace, b. April 23, 1869, m. April 17, 1901, 

Dr. Ralph Paul Williams. 

10. Dorothy Anne, b. Sept. 4, 187 1, m. Aug. 9, 1893, 

George Charles Brownell, son of Geo. Brownell 
of Sheffield and of Liverpool. 

11. Sarah Lillian, b. Nov. 1, 1873. 

12. Margaret Helen, b. July 10, 1876. 

13. Ernest Godfrey, b. June 28, 1878. 

47. Carlos Cony Wheat (44-10) married Louisa Which- 
cote, b. June 5, 1803, d. March 28, 1889, 
daughter of Sir Thomas Whichcote baronet of 
Aswarba, Lincolnshire. 



Wheat of Retford. 33 

1. Samuel, m. 1, Mary Gawer Collins, m. 2, Mary Jenkins 

and had by first m. Henry. 

2. Thomas W., b. 1834, d. 1873. 

3. Christopher Geo., b. Jan. 14, 1839, m. Constance 

Harriett Pearson and had Constance Mary, b. 
1865, who m. H. Raleigh Knight and has Julia 
Mary, b. May 28, 1892. 

4. Mary Louisa, b. 1841, d. 1852. 

5. James Milnes (48) b. May 15, 1844. 

6. Eliza E., b. Nov. 28, 1847. 

48. James Milnes Wheat (47-5 ) married Emma Stevens. 

1. Alfred James, b. Dec. 6, 1871. 

2. Agnes Emma, b. and d. 1873. 

3. Arthur T., b. 1874, d. infant. 

4. Emma Louise, b. April 29, 1875. 

5. Thomas Milnes, b. Sept. 22, 1876. 

6. Ethel Maud, b. Aug. 30, 1877. 

7. Francis George, b. Dec. 6, 1880. 

8. Florence Ada, b. March 26, 1882. 



49- Wheat of Retford. 

John Wheat (42-2 ) of Retford married, Feb. 7. 1733, 
Gertrude Woolby, baptized Oct. 1, 17 13, buried Nov. 25, 
1773 or '4. Mr. Wheat was Alderman and Bailiff of Retford, 
1748. 

1. John, b. 1735, d. 1755. 

2. Gertrude, bap. May 7, 1736. 

3. William, b. and d. 1737. 

4. Richard, d. 1738. 

5. Clifton, b. and d. 1738. 

6. William, bap. March 30, 1742 ; " about the year 1762, 

being about eighteen years of age, absconded and 
ran away from Nottingham, where he was at 
that time apprenticed to Richard Gibson, mercer, 
and was . . . never afterwards heard of, but is 



34 Wheat Genealogy. 

believed to have died beyond the seas. ' ' Affidavit 
of Ann Sambourne, widow, 23 April, 18 10. See 
( 43-3 )• 

7. Clifton, b. and d. 1743. 

8. Jane, 

9. Clifton, bap. Aug. 25, 1753, bu. July 24, 1807, Colonel 

in the Royal Army. 



LETTERS FROM ENGLAND. 

50. Thomas Wheate of London wrote July 9, 1897 : " An 
aunt, my father's sister, is the only living representative of 
my grandfather's family. She can give but very little infor- 
mation concerning the family. . . . My age is thirty-four 
years. I am foreman in a large London manufacturing firm, 
a position which my father held over thirty years before me. 
. . I am married, have a wife and four children — three 
boys, nine, six and three years of age, and a daughter eight 
years of age. I was the only son of Thomas Joseph Wheate 
who died at Abbey Wood in Kent, 1888. 

My father was the eldest of two sons of John Thomas 
Wheate, a master wood and metal turner of the city of 
London, who died at Hanwell in Hertfordshire, 1834. 

My great-grandfather was Charles Wheate, a freeman of 
the city of London, connected with the Goldsmith's Company. 
He died about 1840, I believe. 

My father once told me that his great-grandfather was a 
knight, Sir John Thomas Wheate, but I have never had the 
time or the means to follow up the clue. [Evidently an error ; 
see Rev. Sir John Thomas Wheate (34-3 J. Probably knew 
the knight, instead of was a knight. S. C. W.] 

I was delighted to receive your letter, as I have often been 
inclined to cry with the prophet Elijah, "I, only I, am left." 
It was, therefore, with great pleasure that I learned that the 
Wheat family is so large and influential among our kinsmen 
over the sea." 



Letters from England. 35 

51. Benjamin Wheat, salesman, Spitalfields Market, 
London, wrote Jan. 6, 1896 ; " Your questions are more 
than I can answer. I am a descendant from Joseph Wheat 
who was born at Gosberton in Lincolnshire. My grandfather 
was born in Leicestershire and was buried at a small village 
near Leicester, I think Wanlip is the name. There are but 
very few of the name of Wheat. I can find none but myself 
of the name in the London directory. My parents are both 
dead some ten years ago, and were buried at Coldham near 
Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire. I was born at Winsby, near 
Alford, Lincolnshire. I am sixty-six years of age, married, 
have five sons "and^two daughters. I have four brothers, 
— John, Matthew, William, Joseph — all of whom have large 
families, mostly males. The Wheats are a Leicestershire 
family. . . . " 

52. "Wanlip Rectory, Leicester, Jan. 30, 1896. . 

In reply to your enquiry respecting the Wheats of this parish, 
there appears from the register to have been a John Wheat, 
labourer, and his wife Elizabeth residing in the place in the 
year 18 19, a son William having been baptized April 16. 
John Wheat died 1829 and was buried 25th, aged forty-eight. 
Elizabeth, widow of John Wheat, died 1839, buried May 12, 
aged fifty-two. 

Of the present large family of Wheat now resident here I 
believe you have full information. I can not find mention of 
the name in the register other than as given above. lam 
truly yours, W. H. Palmer." 



PEDIGREE OF WHEAT OF EAST MARKHAM 
supplied by Mrs. Bilbruck (57) and S. C Wheat (59). 

53- Wheat, East Markham, Notts. 

John Wheat, matster, born near Uddersfield, Yorkshire, 
England, married Hary Ramsden, daughter of Rev. John 
Ramsden of Uddersfield, a Chaplain in the Royal Army, and 



36 Wheat Genealogy. 

removed to East Markham. He had a brother, name and 
residence unknown. 

i. Samuel, a merchant. 

2. Benjamin, a weaver. 

3. Joseph, a weaver. 

4. John, a matster. 

5. William, a farmer. [1847. 

6. Francis (54), b. at Rampton, April 22, 1774, d. Nov. 

7. Ann, a teacher. 

8. Sarah, died young. 

9. Mary, died young. 

54- Wheat, Laneham, Notts. 

Francis Wheat (53- 6 )» tailor and merchant, married, 1795, 
Alice Simpson, born May 10, 1774, died March 22, 1854, 
daughter of William and Mary (Shaw) Simpson, of Rampton, 
Notts. They resided at Laneham. 

1. John, b. May 10, 1796, d. Nov. 7, 1865, tailor. 

2. Francis, b. July 20, 1798, d. , laborer. 

3. Ann, b. Feb. 2, 1801, d. Sept. 20, i860. 

4. Mary, b. Dec. 30, 1802, d. Jan. 23, 1848. 

5. George (55), b. Feb. 20, 1805, d. April 18, 1840. 

6. Samuel, b. Dec. 4, 1806, d. Jan. 4, 1814. 

7. Sarah, b. April 16, 1809, d. Jan. 18, 1814. 

8. William, b. Oct. 3, 181 1, d. Jan. 20, 1814. 

9. Charlotte (57)* b. May 11, 1814, d. May 31, 1900. 

10. Thomas (58), b. Aug. 16, 1816, d. Sept. 3, 1867. 



55* Wheat, Laneham, Notts. 

George Wheat ( 54-5 ), shoemaker, Laneham, Notts, Eng- 
land, married Hannah Rooke. 

1. Mary, b. 1832, married Mr. Robinson and resides at 

Sheffield, England. 

2. Thomas (56), b. at Laneham, Aug. 12, 1837. 



Wheat from East Markham. 37 

56. Wheat, Alton, III. 
Thomas Wheat (55- 2 )» blacksmith, learned his trade at 
Wheatley, 1 841 -1848, then returned to Sheffield where his 
parents lived. He came to America 1859, and worked with 
his uncle Thomas at Summerville, 111. Settled at Alton 1875. 
He married first, May n, 1863, Emily Eastham, d. Oct. 7, 
1870, daughter of George Eastham of Medora, 111.; married 
second, Sept. 5, 187 1, Anna Elizabeth Wynkoop. 

1. Laura May, b. May 18, 1864, m. Mackey,St. Louis. 

2. Fannie Effie, b. Feb. 8, 1867, d. May n, 1867. 

3. Edward Eugene, b. May 24, 1868, d. Dec. 13, 1868. 

4. Thomas, b. May 23, 1874, d. June 18, 1874. 

5. George, b. May 16, 1876, d. June 15, 1876. 

57- BlLBRUCK, HETTICK, ILL. 

Charlotte Wheat (54-9), married, Dec. 3, 1839, John 
Bilbruck of Norton, near Doncaster, Yorks, England. In 
1840 a letter came to one of our neighbors telling of good 
times and prosperity in America. John, George and Richard 
Bilbruck, brothers, with their families, and four other fami- 
lies sailed April 7, 1841, and were recorded at Castle Garden, 
May 22. All found work. 

Mr. John Bilbruck became ill and by advice of his physi- 
cian returned to England, taking his family with him, to 
Laneham, Notts, where father Wheat lived. He recovered 
when midway in the voyage. 

In 1857 they returned to America at the proposal of her 
brother, Thomas Wheat (58), to work his farm. In 1865 
they bought the farm at Hettick, 111., where the family now 
resides. Mr. Bilbruck died March 27, 1872. 

1. Ann Elizabeth, b. Oct. 22, 1840, m. 1861, John 

Burrell, of Carrolton, 111. 

2. Mary Frances, b. Dec. 7, 1842, m. 1864, John B. 

Penoyer. 

3. William Thomas, b. Dec. 29, 1844, enlisted for the 

Civil War, Co. B, 61st 111., and was in the Battle 
of Shiloh. 



38 Whkat Genealogy. 

4. Martha Clarice, b. March 13, 1847, d. J an - 6, 1880. 

5. Joseph George, b. Dec. 13, 1848. 

6. Israel Mark, b. Oct. 8, 1850. 

7. Luke Francis, b Sept. 15, 1853. 

8. Emily Alice, b. Aug. n, 1855, d. Dec. 21, 1890. 

9. Charlotte Clodessa, b. March 1, 1857, d. Dec. 3, 

1881. 

58. Whkat, Carlinville, III. 
Thomas Wheat (54- IO )» blacksmith, and inventor, from 
Suton on Trent, Notts, England, to Summerville, 111., 1849, 
removed to Carlinville, 111., 1866 ; married first, May 1838, 
Jane Ashling, who died, leaving a son Thomas ; married 
second at Jacksonville, 111., Feb. 15, 1853, Sarah Newby, 
born Nov. 14, 1825, d. Feb. 11, 1884. 

1. Thomas Ashling, b. Feb. 1839 ; residing in New 

Zealand. 

2. George N., b. Jan. 19, 1854, residing in Clearwater, 

Cal. 

3. John Francis, b. Apr. 26, 1856, farmer at Plainview, 

111. 

4. Hannah Alice, b. June 24, 1858, music teacher, 

Kansas City, Mo. 

5. Samuel Chester (59), b. April 4, 1861. 

6. William H. (60), b. July 14, 1863. 

59- Wheat, Kansas City, Mo. 

Samuel Chester Wheat (58-5), dentist, degree B. S at 
Blackburn University, Carlinville, 111., 1884, degree Doctor 
Dental Surgery at Dental College, Kansas City, Mo., 1889; was 
a charter member and stockholder of the Western Dental Col- 
lege organized 1890; has occupied the chair of demonstrator 
of Clinical and Operative Dentistry since 1891. He mar- 
ried, Dec. 5, 1894, Clara Hynd, born Oct. 6, 1866, 
daughter of William and Martha C. Hynd, of Des Moines, 
Iowa. 

1. William Gladstone, b. Nov. 9, 1899. 



Gleanings in America. 39 

60. Wheat, Kansas City, Mo. 
William H. Wheat, (58-0 ) dentist, formerly real estate 
broker at Greensburg, Kansas, where he married, March 7, 
1888, Minnie B. Snyder, daughter of Frederick H. Snyder ; 
removed to Chicago 189 1, and to Kansas City, 1900. 

1. Roscoe Vincent, b. Nov. 22, 1890. 

2. Zelda Belle, b. Jan. 26, 1893. 



THE WHEAT FAMILY IN AMERICA. 

brief mention of some who were not descendants of 
moses wheat of concord. 

61. Province of Massachusetts Bay. 
xiij° Aprilis 1635. In the Elizabeth de ho : Wm. Stagg 
M r Prd : theis underwritten names brought Certi : from the 
Minister at St. Saviours Southwark of their conformitie. 

Tho : Millet 30 Josua Wheat 17 

uxor Marie Millet 29 Jo: Smith 12 

Versula Greenoway 32 Ralph Chapman 20 

Henrie Bull 19 Tho : Millet 2 

Hotteyi 1 s Emigrants. 
The above Joshua Wheat, in the year 1635, being then 
seventeen years of age, settled at Concord in Massachusetts, 
where he acquired title to a house-lot of six acres. In 1640 
he gave this land to his brother Moses and returned to 
England. 

The church of Saint Saviours has recently been restored 
and converted into a cathedral church for South London. 

Dr. A. F Wheat of Manchester, N. H. spent several days 
in October, 1902, examining the records of Saint Saviours and 
the adjoining Parish of St. Thomas. The records were diffi- 
cult to decipher. The name Wheate occurs several times be- 
tween 1 6 10 and 1635, but there is nothing to connect these 



40 Wheat Genealogy. 

people with Moses and Joshua of Concord. Two of the 
records are inserted here: 

Nicholas Wheate and Elizabeth Weaver were married April 
15, 1623. 

Coony (?) Wheate and Jane Hill were married July 7,1631. 

62. Naughty Jane of Salem, Mass. 

The ffifth Quarter Court held at Salem the 27th of the 
ffourth month Ann° 1637. 
Hear being p r sent Imprimis whereas 

Endicott Jane Wheat 

m r Roge r Connant (servant unto Peter 

m r Hathorne Palfry) had not 

only wronged hir neighbors in killing their poultrie, but being 
convict for Lying, Loytering & running away fro hir master 
was whipped. 

Jane Wheat was undoubtedly a white servant brought 
from England. Negro slaves were kept at Salem a little later. 
At Bristol, R. I. " Peg Wheat and Joseph col. were married, 
Feb. 24, 1733-4. I take this couple to be negro slaves. Pos- 
sibly Peg was an Indian, taking the name Wheat from the 
family which she served. 

63. CORTE OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY 

" In answer to y e petition of Rob r t Ensome, John Wheate, 

& y e rest, this Corte having taken into 

it is hereby ordered that they shall have the one halfe of the 
customes of their wines abated them, viz., five shillings upon 
a butt. . . . 22th 3th mo 1646." 

This John Wheat was probably a merchant of Boston. No 

other record or trace of him has been found. Was he that 

one of the traditional three brothers who went South ? See 

section 3. 

64. Rhode Island. 

Samuel Wheate and others signed a treaty with certain 
Indians, Dec. 28, 1665, by which they acquired land in War- 
wick, R. I. No other record found. See 70-2 and 38-10. 



Gleanings in America. 41 

65. Province of New Amsterdam (New York). 
Octob r the 30 th 1666 James Willet and M r Wheat have de- 
clared & Testified to the Court uppon oath . . . 

66. New Jersey, 1697. 

The quaker members of the West Jersey legislature ad- 
dressed the king, declaring their loyalty and congratulating 
his majesty on his escape from an assassin. Among the 43 
signers was Benjamin Wheate. See 38-8 . 

67. New Hampshire. 

" John Wheat enlisted in her Majesty's Service, Oct. 10, 
1 7 10, and served in Maj. Gilbert Abbot's company at An- 
napolis Royal. Died, Mar. 17, after 158 days." No other 
record found. It is possible that he was a son of Joshua and 
Elizabeth (77-) 

68. Pennsylvania. 

John Ord and Anne Wheat were married at Philadelphia, 
5-20- 17 1 5 Records of the First Presbyterian Church. 

69. Maryland. 

In 1752 Benedict Calvert leased to Francis Wheate a tract 
of land in Prince George county, Maryland, for the term of 
his (Mr. Wheate' s) natural life and the natural lives of his 
sons John and Francis. Many descendants of Francis Wheate 
are living in the South and West. 



42 Wheat Genealogy 



MOSES WHEAT OF CONCORD AND HIS 
DESCENDANTS. 

' ' What is the story of this buried Past ? 
Were all its doors flung wide 
For us to search its rooms, 
And we to see the race from first to last, 
And how they lived and died." 

— Elizabeth Drew Stoddard. 



70. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 

"Moses Wheat of Concord in His Majesty's Province of 
Massachusetts Bay in New England, yeoman," was among 
the earliest settlers at Concord, 1635 or 1636. His father re- 
sided in England, and Moses, probably, was born there about 
1616. He died at Concord, May 6, 1700. His wife " Tam= 
zen " (Thomasine) died July 9, 1689. Their burial-place is 
unknown ; probably no stones were set ; every inch of the 
old cemeteries of Concord has been searched for them in vain. 
Records of Middlesex county name eleven children. 

1. Moses, b. , bu. June 28, 1641. 

2. Samuel (71), b. Oct. 25, 1640, w. p. May 24, 1714. 

3. Hannah (72), b. Feb. 12, 1641-2, living 1691. 

4. Hannath, b. Jan. 15, 1642-3, d. before 1691. 

5. Rebecca (73), b. June 16, 1644, d. April 5, 1721. 

6. Jane, b. — , d. Oct. 13, 1648. 

7. Moses (74), b. , d. Oct. 14, 1720. 

8. John (75), b. Nov. 19, 1649, w. p. June 7, 1715. 

9. Sarah (76), b. , living 1700. 

10. Aaron, b. , ! d. June 13, 1658. 

11. Joshua (77), b. , d. Dec. 15, 1708. 



Moses of Concord. 43 

70 A. Moses Wheat probably came from Southwark (South 
London), for his brother Joshua (61), a lad of seventeen, 
obtained a church certificate from the minister at St. 
Saviours, Southwark, 1635. Probably Moses was older than 
Joshua, for he had two sons, not twins, living in 1640. In 
the agreement with his brother (70F) he seems to have 
avoided giving his father's name and place of residence. 
Many New England settlers did the same, hence the difficulty 
experienced in tracing lineage across the Atlantic. The poli- 
tical disturbances in England may have been the cause for 
this concealment of relatives. The date of the agreement, 
1688, was at the period when England suffered most severely 
the atrocious cruelties perpetrated by James II. and his Chief 
Justice Jeffries. 

As early as 1634 the king, to prevent the transplanting of 
whole parishes to New England and the consequent depletion 
of his realm and the creation of a rival state across the sea, 
forbade ministers and subsidy-men (those who paid passage 
for poor people) to leave England without a permit. Ships 
ready to sail were entered by officers and hundreds were 
removed. In spite of this prohibition the Rev. Peter Bulkley 
of Odell and Simon Willard of Horsemonden induced twelve 
families to leave England with them to settle Concord. The 
minister left his wife in care of Thomas Dane on the " Eliza- 
beth and Ann," which sailed May 7, 1635, and two days later 
he sailed from London in the " Susan and Ellen." 

But fear may not have been the only- motive of the Puritan 
settlers for concealing their identity. The omission of names 
may have been due to a stoical indifference on the part of the 
writers, and an aversion for heraldry and pedigrees as if they 
were forms of ancestor-worship. Whether the omission was 
a religious principle or not, it was religiously persisted in, 
even to the extent in some cases of omitting the names of 
wife and children from wills which conveyed to them estates 
of real and personal property. Unless some parish register 
shall reveal the name of Moses Wheat's father, it is not likely 
to be known. 



44 Wheat Genealogy. 

Why did not Moses, as well as Joshua, obtain a certificate 
of conformity and take the oath of supremacy and thus avoid 
the danger of detention ? Was he suspected of Puritanism ? 
Did his conscience forbid the oath ? Perhaps he could not 
obtain the certificate, and would not take the oath. On the 
other hand, it is possible that he was in Boston before 1634, 
or that, by error, his name was omitted from the list of those 
who brought certificates. 

70B. To understand the conditions under which Moses and 
Tamzen Wheat lived one must read the many histories and 
other books relating to Concord. From the Charles river, the 
immigrant band, consisting of men, women and children, 
encumbered with cattle, poultry, tools, provisions, house- 
hold goods and the priceless family bible, toiled for days 
through a country alternating between swamp and crag, 
obstructed at every step by thorns and tangled vines, to reach 
their destination only sixteen miles away. Here they made 
" dug-outs" in the southern slope of a low hill that stretched 
east and west along the plain for a mile or more. In these 
miserable dwellings they passed the first winter, and some fami- 
lies continued to use them for several years. 

These hardy frontiersmen began the work of transforming 
the swamps and ledges into the garden that smiles at Concord 
to-day. While strong arms smote the forest, patient mothers 
toiled and watched, and wept and prayed in homes where 
tender infants ill endured their hard surroundings. Among 
them, Moses and Tamzen Wheat had their share of labor, of 
sorrow and of joy, and did their part in bringing about the 
new conditions. 

The Concord of to-day was described in ' ' Wheat Glean- 
ings," July, 1 901, as follows : 

" I have just returned from a visit to Concord, Massachu- 
setts, for sixty years the home of Moses Wheat, whose 
descendants are now living in nearly every state in the Union. 
Several papers of interest were found and copied. The loca- 
tion of " my mansion dwelling house & barne & y e land joyn- 
ing to it lying from y e on end to y e other . . . & y e other part 



Moses of Concord. 45 

of y e orchard," was recognized. It is a beautiful spot. The 
heaviest crop of hay I ever saw was being harvested. The 
air was fragrant with the odor of ripe strawberries, and scores 
of pickers were gathering the luscious fruit. Stately elms 
shaded the roadway. Extending for a mile or more along the 
north side of the street and about one hundred feet distant 
from it is a low hill of yellow clay and gravel, the terminal 
moraine of an ancient glacier that lingered in the neighbor- 
hood after the great ice-cap had retreated far to the north- 
ward. At the foot of this hill, facing the south, the first set- 
tlers built their log cabins. At the west end of the hill they 
built their pastor's house, and almost under its eaves up 
the sloping ground they made their earliest graves. 

Before their doors stretched away a broad meadow, whose 
soil is still black with the accumulated mold of centuries. A 
brook of clear water which divides the meadow contributed 
its share to the prosperity of the infant colony, for it then, as 
now, bore the name of ' Mill Brook.' No doubt it yielded an 
abundance of speckled trout. In every field and along the 
roadside I was greeted by the rich note of ' Bob White. ' 

Here occurred the first clash at arms of the Revolution. 
Along the roadway stand granite monuments inscribed with 
tales of the heroism of Paul Revere and the ' embattled 
farmers' who 'fired the shot heard round the world.'" — 
5. C. Wheat. 

70C. When Moses Wheat came to America is unknown, 
but both he and his brother Joshua arrived in Concord in time 
to receive as their assignment of town lands the eleventh and 
thirteenth houselots, being the fifth and sixth lots eastward 
from the minister's on the north side of Mill Brook. The lots 
were laid off in two rows on the opposite sides of Mill Brook. 
The minister received the first lot on the north side of the 
brook. This system of numbering is my own. It is used 
merely to prove that Moses was one of the first fifteen settlers 
of Concord. I do not know of any record of the first allot- 
ment of land, but many years afterward each owner was 
directed to prepare a description of his land and have it 
recorded in y e Town Book. The average size of the lots was 
ten acres. Moses Wheat's lot of sixteen acres was the largest 
in the village. It is inferred that his original lot contained 
but ten acres, and that Joshua's lot of six acres was adjacent 



46 Wheat Genealogy. 

to it, giving to Moses sixteen acres when the two lots were 
united. , 

Larger tracts of land could be acquired outside the village, 
and Moses Wheat continued to add to his holdings from time 
to time until he had 339 acres in twenty-three separate allot- 
ments. Besides this he secured his brother Joshua's six-acre 
houselot, and bought land of two of his neighbors. He moved 
from the village and resided on Bedford Road about two miles 
east of the church. 

70D. Moses Wheat was made a freeman, May 18, 1642. 
He was tithingman at church and kept people awake during 
the long sermons that Puritan ministers were fond of deliv- 
ering. He signed his name, not his "mark," and probably 
composed the agreement with Joshua. He may have com- 
posed his will and written it with his own hand. The docu- 
ment bears internal evidence that it was not written by a pro- 
fessional schrivener. But whatever were his attainments he 
neglected his children's education. Only two of them, Samuel 
and Moses, could sign their names. 

70 E. Concord. Vital Records. 

Samuel the sonneof moses wheate was borne 25 (8°) 1640. 

moses the sonne of moses wheate buried 28 (4 ) 1641. 

Hannah his daught 1 " borne 12 (12 ) 1641-2. 

Hannah thedaught r of moses wheate borne 19° (12 ) 164 1-2. 
[Should be buried, died or baptized instead of "borne," 
or it may be a repetition of the record one week after first 
entry] . 

Hannath the daught r of Moses and Tamzen Wheat borne 
15th (11 mo) 1642-3. 

Rebecka daughter of Moses and Tamzen Wheat 16 (4) 1644. 

Jane daughter of Moses and Tamzen Wheat died 13 (8) 1648. 

John son of Moses and Tamzen Wheat born 19 (9) mo 1649. 

Aaron son of Moses and Tamsen Wheat died 13th June 
1658. 

John Bigelow and Sarah Wheat were married 27 may 1675. 



Moses of Concord. 47 

Samewell Stratton & hannah Wheat married 20 oct 1675. 

Tamzen Wheat y e wife of Moses died July y e 9th dy 1689. 

Moses Wheat senor died may y e 6th day 1700, 

Sam 11 Wheat and Abigail Baker both of Concord marryed 
April y e 7th 1703. 

Joshua Wheat died Dec. 15, 1708. 

Boaz Brown & Abigail Wheat married Sept. 10, 17 16, 

Moses Wheat dyed October y e i4the day 1720. 

Rebeckah Wheat y e daughter of Moses (Deceased) dyed 
April y e 5 dy 1721. 

Vital records were not kept at Concord before 1640; and 
records have been lost for the periods Sept. 17, 1650 to Feb., 
1654, and from 1675 to 1685. 

70F. Agreement between Moses and Joshua 
entered in ll y e Town Book of Concord, vol. I. p. 126. 

The 24th day of if ebruary in the year one Thousand six hun- 
dred eighty and nine ninety 

Know whom it may concern y fc about forty-nine years ago 
y* was about y e year one Thousand six hundred fourty 01 
fourty one : that Joshua Wheat : Brother to me Moses Wheat 
seinri went from me his said Brother then Residing & living 
in Concord : y e s d Joshua Wheat my brother : being & goeing 
to England to my father & his father then living : my s d 
Bro : Joshua having some land in this Town of Concord : my 
s d Bro 1 made this Agreement with me his s d Bro 1 : Moses 
W 7 heat Senir : that if he y e s d Joshua Came not to new eng- 
land againe y 4 I should have & enjoy that little land y l was 
his lying in Concord : & improve it & looke after it as my 
owne : also I y e s d Moses Wheat Senir made this Agreement 
with my s d Brother Joshua : that at my fathers death if my 
father left me any legacy or gift I y e s d Moses : did grant 
bargain & fully allow him my s d Brother Joshua to receive 
take and enjoy it as own : both he & his heirs — also he my s d 
Bro : left his little land he hade in Concord to be enjoyed by 
me & mine he not coming again to new england as above said 
& since y e time y l my s d brother Joshua & I his s d bro 1 : moses 



48 Wheat Genealogy. 

made this Agreement y* is fourty nine years as above said : 
I y e s d Moses Wheat senir have had none y l demanded y e s d 
little parcel of land : though my Bro* : Joshua lived y e most 
of ye time This the true agreement made between me y e s d 
Moses Wheat senir & my Brother Joshua Wheat as I y e s d 
Moses Wheat Can & will if required & put to it attest upon 
oath Witness my hand Moses Wheat Senir. 

70G. Moses Wheat's Wiel, 

copied from the original document. 

I Moses wheat Senior in the town of Concord in County of 
Middlesex in New England being in perfect memory praised 
be God : Doe make this my last will & testament in manner as 
followeth — My soul I commite into y e hands of God my most 
mersiful father in Jesus Christ who hath Caled me by his 
word & Spirit to y e fellowship of his son Jesus Christ : Believ- 
ing y e resurrection of my "body at y e last and great day of y e 
generall assembly : : & my body to be desently buryed — by y e 
executors of my will : for my temporall Estate as followeth : : 
I will y e all my True Debtes be honerably paid and my funeral 
charges satisfied I will and give to my Eldest son Samuel Wheat 
my mansion dwelling house & barne and y e one half of y e 
land joyning to it lying from y e on end to y e other joining to 
nathaniel Harwood and that part of y e orchard y* that falleth 
in to Said half of also my three acres more or less lying be- 
tween nathaniel Hardwood and John Joans : : Also I will and 
give to my son John Wheat my dwelling house bought of 
Thomas Adams with ye other half of y e lots joyning to Sd 
house & y e other part of y e orchard : : Also I will & give to 
both my sons Samuel and John Wheat all my meadow & up- 
land be it more or less lying in and by the meadow Commonly 
Called y e Bridge meadow : : also my 9 acres of meadow more 
or less at the . . land joyning to nathan Stows meadow : 
also my four acres of meadow more or less lying pine hill with 
y e upland joyning to it : also my meadow and upland lying 
Cranefield also all my woodland more or less lying toward 
chessnut field : : Also I will and give to my son Moses Wheat 



Moses of Concord. 49 

my thirty eight acres of upland lying beyond my nine acres of 
medow also all medow in Rochi medow : : also six acres 
bot of my son Straton also my seven score acres of upland & 
swamp with y e wood hill be it more or less I will and give to 
my three sons Samuel John and Moses Wheat in equal right : : 
also I will and give to my daughter Rebecca Wheat ^50 out 
of my estate : five acres of upland on y e plaine joyning to 
Nathaniel Balls land to be accounted as a part of y e s d £50 : 
also I will to my son Joshua Wheat five pounds : : also to my 
daughter Hannah Straton five pounds : : also to my daughter 
Sarah Hill five pounds : : also I will & give to all my grand : 
children ten shillings apiece : also I give to my two sons Samuel 
and John Wheat eleven acres in y e ox pasture & my 6 A in 
CheeSnut field : also I give and will that my land lying on my 
plaine be improved by all my three sons whilst they live to- 
gether : but when my son Moses goeth to dwell on his own 
then my sons Samuel and John Wheat to possess and enjoy it 
to themselves : also I make my two sons Samuel & John Wheat 
joint executors of this my last will & testament : In an ac- 
knowledgment that this my last will & testament I y e above 
Moses Wheat Seinr set to my hand and seal this nineteenth 
day of September in y e year one thousand six hundred ninety 
& one. 

Sealed and subscribed /? x r> 

in presence of ^HyiC^fC^O ^i^CHli^ 

Nathaniel Harwood c^J C\j cty 

Jonathan Hubard 



Proved June 11, 1700. 



70H. Agreement of the Heirs. 

The will when presented for probate was deemed imperfect. 
It began with the words, " My soul I commite . . ." The 
first sentence ending with " in manner as followeth," differs 
from the rest of the instrument both in penmanship and in 
ink used. It was probably added after the heirs had signed 



50 Wheat Genealogy. 

the agreement. This agreement was endorsed by the re- 
corder as follows : 

ye e Wheats agreemt for Cfiring y e will. 
This may signify to whom it may concern that we the 
subscribers hereof, being the children to & Heirs of our 
honoured father, Moses wheat of Concord, in the county of 
Midlesex, in New England, decea st the sixth day of May 
Inst nt who did y e ninteenth of Septemb er in y e year Anno 
Dominie one thousand, six hundred ninety & one, make 
& sign a will, In making of w ch there was not taken (per- 
chance) that accute methard and form as might have been at- 
tended, yet notwithstanding we his children aforesd. do de- 
clare that we do believe that what he then signed as aforesd 
was no other than what he did truly Intend at the time, And 
we the subscribers having a desire to continue peace & 
unity amongst ourselves as hath been hitherto, as also to pre- 
vent any future Jealoucies & disturbances that may arise or 
be practiced amongst us, we do by these presents Declare 
ourselves satisfyed & contented w th what our sd honoured 
father hath done on that behalfe. And do firmly Binde & 
oblige ourselves our Heirs executo rs & Administrato rs unto 
each other their Heirs executo rs Administrato rs & Assigns, 
to stand to, and abide, and Acquaess in, the sd will of our 
sd father to all Intents & purposes, and to shew that this 
is our free absolute & mutiall agreement we have respec- 
tively affixed our hands & seals — this fourteenth day of May 
Anno Domini one Thousand & seven hundred 

] his 

J „ , J „ ^ , . Samuel X Stratton Sen r (Seal) 
Signed Sealed and Declared , 

° . . marke 

in presence of us 

nathanail harwood 

Thomas Browne Sen r 



acknoled by all 
Isaac Hill 



Samuel Wheat 


(Seal) 


his 




John X Wheat 


(Seal) 


marke 




his 




Joshua X Wheat 


(Seal) 


marke 





Moses of Concord. 51 



her 




Rebeca X Wheat 


(Seal) 


marke 




her 




Sarah X Hill 


(Seal) 


marke 




Moses Wheat 


(Seal) 


Isaac Hill 


(Seal) 



this is to be recorded 
& also y e will for 
y e strengthig of it. 



70I. The character of Moses Wheat was of a positive type. 
On the bank of the Thames, an outspoken Puritan ; in Con- 
cord, a man of rigid conscience and iron will, but not vindic- 
tive ; in controversy, discreet. He remained in Concord 
through all the bitter doctrinal strife which rent that little 
community and drove half its families into exile. Its swamps 
were more inviting to him than was his birth-right in England ; 
for this was the price he paid for Joshua's six acres (six shil- 
lings' worth) of town land. From one point of view he was 
a land-miser, ever getting, but never selling ; denying his 
children an education and forbidding them to marry in order 
to keep them at home and thus aid in increasing the estate in- 
stead of reducing it by division. With what complacence he 
consented to undertake the responsibility of ownership for 
"that little parcel of land that was my sd Bro : Joshua's." 
Several of his children could not sign their names. The son 
who married received by his father's will but £5, while the 
three others received together more than 330 acres of land 
with buildings and stock. The daughters who married re- 
ceived £5 each, while their unmarried sister received ^50. 

From another viewpoint he was an excellent provider, 
having the most productive farm and the best house, team, 
wagons and implements in the neighborhood — a man who 
took pride in himself, his property and his family, with, pos- 
sibly, the fault of putting property before family, and of in- 
cluding both within the corporate entity SELF, forgetting that 
his children would be far happier if allowed or assisted to set 
up homes for themselves. But many fathers in all times and 
places have had this fault. 



52 Wheat Genealogy. 

The failure to educate one's children was only too common 
a fault in his day. Many who grew up with them also made 
their " mark" The unequal division of property in his will 
may not be a sign of displeasure with those who married, for 
they may have received gifts at the time of their marriage, 
and they were apparently prosperous at the writing of the 
will ; besides, the unmarried sons and daughter had remained 
at home more than twenty years helping to acquire and im- 
prove land. By giving the estate mainly to them he was only 
just. 

It may have been mere chance that the three marriages 
took place within a few weeks ; Sarah, May 27, Joshua, June 
10, and Hannah, Oct. 20, 1775. Their father has left on 
record no word or sign that can be taken without reservation 
as a token of displeasure with their act, yet one cannot fail to 
" read between the lines " of the will. 

70 J. So far as I have discovered, the name of Thomasine 
Wheat occurs only in Concord vital records. For more than 
fifty years she was to her family all that is comprehended in 
the word MOTHER. 

71. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 

Samuel Wheat (70- 2 ), yeoman, admitted a freeman March 
12, 1689-90, remained single until after his father's death, by 
whose will he received the homestead and an interst in other 
lands. At the age of sixty- three he married, April 7, 1703, 
Abigail Ballard {Abigail Baker in Concord records) and three 
years later made a will bequeathing his entire estate to his 
young wife. He had sold nothing that came to him by his 
father's will, but had bought much that fell to the other heirs 
from parties to whom they had conveyed it. His will was 
proved May 24, 17 14. They had no children. 

Widow Abigail Wheat received a year later by will of John 
Wheat (75) his entire " property of every sort." After sell- 
ing most of her land she married, Sept. 10, 17 16, Boaz 
Brown, a widower seventy-five years of age. '* Boaz Brown 
husband to Abigail his wife Died April y e 7 : 1724." She 



Moses of Concord. 53 

had no children. Her will gives personal property to the 
value of ,£159-19-7 to her relatives, and all her real estate to 
the heirs of Joshua Wheat (77) and Isaac Hill (76). She 
died July 20, 1726. 

In these wills the name Wheat has two fs, Wheatt. The 
three wills seem to be the product of one head, possibly of 
one hand. 

72. Stratton, Concord, Mass. 

Hannah Wheat ( 70-3 ) married, Oct. 20, 1675, Samuel 
Stratton, a widower. They had several children all of whom 
died young. She did not sign at the settlement of her father's 
estate, but her husband signed his mark. 

"Samuel Stratton y e husband of Hannah his Late wife 
dyed Decemb r y e 5th day 1707." 

1 

73. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 

Rebecca Wheat ( 70-5 ) never married. After her mother's 
death in 1689 she was housekeeper until 1703 when Samuel 
brought a young wife to be mistress of ' ' my mansion house. ' ' 
There is no other record of Rebecca until her death in 1721, 
but from the fact that she was not remembered in the will of 
either Samuel or John, who lived on the homestead, it seems 
probable that she lived with one of Joshua's sons. 

74. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 

Moses Wheat ( 70-7 ), husbandman, served in the war 
against King Philip under Captain Wheeler at Groton gar- 
rison, June 24, 1676, and in the Narragansett expedition. For 
this service he was entitled to a grant of public land, but the 
grant was not made until April 18, 1735, fifteen years after 
his death. His allotment passed to his heir, his nephew 
Joseph Wheat ( 77-3 ). His father in his will alludes to the 
time when ' ' my son Moses Wheat shall go to live on his own 
land." Probably this refers to the expected grant for mili- 
tary service. 



54 Wheat Genealogy. 

Aug. 8, 1700, he sold for twenty shillings a year a half in- 
terest in seven acres " to my cousin Joseph Wheat." Joseph 
was his brother Joshua's son. The word nephew was not 
then in use. Feb. 20, 1706, he deeded all his lands "to my 
cousin Joseph Wheat," the latter to care for Moses during 
life or forfeit the land to the Selectmen, who would then 
provide for Moses Perhaps he was a cripple or an invalid 
and unable to care for himself. 

75. Wheat, Concord, Mass. 

John Wheat (70-s ), yeoman, was never married. Within 
two years after his father's death he had transferred to his 
brother Joshua and to Joshua's son Joseph all the land in- 
herited from his father, and the five acres bought of Rebecca. 
His will reads, "I . . . do give and bequeath unto my 
sister Abigail Wheatt her heirs .... all my estate 
whatsoever and wheresoever it is or may be found of all sorts 
and kinds with all my wearing apparel arms and all things 
else whatsoever." Abigail was his brother's widow. His 
own sister Rebecca was then living, either under the same 
roof or with " cousin " Joseph in the same town. 

A petition from Captain Wheeler ' ' To the Honorable 
Governor and Council in Boston," June 28, 1677, prays tnat 
certain youths from Concord may be dismissed from the 
militia and sent home, having been pressed into service for 
light duty for one week, but kept a long time in the fort at 
heavy duty. The " youths " were Samuel Stratton Jr., 
John Wheat, aged twenty-eight, John Bull and Thomas 
Wooly. 

76. Hill, Malden, Mass. 

Sarah Wheat (70-9) married first, May 27, 1675 John 
Bigelow, and probably removed from Concord. In her 
father's will she is Sarah Hill. She made her " marke," and 
her husband signed Isaac Hill. 

Nov. 27, 1726, the heirs of Joshua Wheat (77) sold their in- 
terests in lands willed to them by Abigail (Wheat) Brown 
(71) to the heirs of Sarah Hill. The Hill heirs are : 



Joshua of Concord. 55 

1. Moses Hill, ] 

2. Abraham Hill, V all of Maiden, Mass. 

3. Phineas Upliam, J 

4. Jonathan Sprague, ) t ,« r TT7 t ._ 

* i , w . , > both of Woburn, Mass. 

5. Joseph Wright, J 

77- Wheat, Concord, Mass. 
Joshua Wheat (70-n), yeoman, married at Lynn, Mass. 
June 10, 1675, Elizabeth Hansfield, d. Feb. 3, 1703-4, 
daughter of Joseph Mansfield of Lynn and Elizabeth Need- 
ham. The record at Lynn says "Joshua Weat and Eliza- 
beth Mansjeald." The}' had at least five sons, three of whom 
were living 1726. It is possible, but hardly probable, that 
John Wheat (67) was their son. 

1. Moses, b. at Lynn, May 30, 1676, d. June 15, 

1676. 

2. Samuel (78), b. at Concord, July 31, 1677, d. 1735. 

3. Joseph, bought and sold land, 1700 to 1741, mar- 

ried Priscilla Flegg and left many descendants 
who will be described in a later volume. 

4. Joshua (77A), d. March 2, 1762, a physician. 

5. Moses (77A), b. at Groton, Sept. 1686. 

77 A. Joshua and Elizabeth Wheat resided for a short 
time at Lynn, then at Concord. He bought land at Groton, 
Mass. 1679, and resided there until 1691, possibly until 1700. 
After his father's death he exchanged his land in Groton 
with his brother John for a part of their father's estate. The 
same day, Dec. 19, 1701, he deeded half of this land "to 
my eldest son Samuel Wheat ; " and five years later sold the 
rest to his son Joseph. He made no will. 

He was enrolled March 17, 169 1-2 in the West Regiment 
and served in garrison. 

Middlesex Deeds. — The heirs of Joshua Wheat deeded, Nov. 
22, 1726, to the heirs of Sarah Hill (76) for ^63, "all our 
right to anything given us in the last will of our aunt Abigail 
Brown (71) of Concord, deceased, except what she hath given 
or sold by deeds. " Signed by 



56 Wheat Genealogy. 

Samuel Wheat of Cambridge, Mass., pr^sician ; 

Joseph Wheat of Concord, Mass., farmer ; 

Joshua Wheat of Weston, Mass., physician. 

Lynn Intentions of Marriage. — "June 10, 17 10, Moses 
Wheat and Deborah Mansfield both belonging to Lynn." 

This Moses Wheat is believed to be the son of Joshua born 
at Groton, 1686, and brought up by the Mansfields. He did 
not sign the deed with his brothers, 1726. 

Needham Marriages. — " vSamuel Glover and Ruth Wheat 
both of Needham, were married, September 28, 1752." The 
Glover Memorial calls Ruth a daughter of Moses Wheat of 
Needham. She had a son Samuel born 1755 or 1756. 

First Church of Needham. — "Doctor Joshua Wheat died 
March 2, 1762, at Mr. Jonathan Huntting's." This is prob- 
ably the Dr. Joshua who signed the deed, 1726. No other 
record of him is known. 

77B. The character of Joshua Wheat is in striking contrast 
with that of his father and brothers. His brothers remained 
at home ignorant and unmarried ; his father labored appar- 
ently with the sole object of possessing land and bequeathing 
it to his sons. But Joshua left the paternal roof in youth, 
married, and educated his sons for a profession. Not one of 
the eight succeeding generations of his line has failed to pro- 
duce physicians, ministers, or lawyers. A delight in learning 
for the love of knowing seems almost universal among his 
descendants. 

What led the steps of the young adventurer to Lynn ? By 
whom was he introduced to the Mansfields ? Did his mother 
discover the spirit of expansion budding in his youthful heart, 
watch and nurse it until, grown to manhood, she sent him to 
her kinspeople ? Was it the ambition of the young father, or 
the strong purpose of the tender mother that determined and 
accomplished the education of their sons? It may never be 
possible to answer these queries, but it is altogether probable 
that his mother laid the foundation of Joshua Wheat's ambi- 
tion, and that Elizabeth Mansfield was his inspiration. 



Dr. Samuel Wheat. 57 

77C. Mansfield Lineage. 

Elizabeth /lansfield, b. at Lynn, d. at Concord, Mass., Feb. 3, 
1703-4, m. June 10, 1675, Joshua Wheat, d. Dec. 15, 1708 ; daughter of 
Joseph, d. at Lynn, Mass., April 22, 1694, m. Elizabeth Needham, d. 
8, 7 mo, 1674 ; son of Robert of Lynn, d. Dec. 16, 1666. 

xiij Aprilis 1635 : In the Susan & Ellin Edward Payne Mr for New 
England theis pnies hereunder expressed have brought Certificate from 
the Minister & Justice of their Conformitie & that they are no Subsedy 
Men. 

Among the " hereunder expressed " is the name " Jo : Mansfield 34 " 
(years of age). 

John Mansfield of Lynn was admitted a freeman 1643 \ Robert of 
Lynn, 1642 ; Andrew of Lynn from England 1636 or earlier, said to be 
from Exeter in Devon. 

Among the Mansfields were college graduates, schoolmasters, physi- 
cians and representatives in the colonial legislature. Andrew of Lynn 
was Town Clerk 1666, Representative 1680-1683. Samuel graduated at 
Harvard 1690. A Mr. Mansfield opened a private school in Charles- 
town and drew many pupils from the public school, for which complaint 
was made against him 1666. 

77D. Needham Lineage. 

Elizabeth Needham, d. 8, 7 mo., 1674, m. Joseph Mansfield, d. April 
22, 1694 ; daughter of Edmund from England, d. at Lynn, Mass., May 
16, 1677, m. Jone who d. Oct. 24, 1674, aged 65. 

Widow Hary Needham of Hampstead, county Middlesex, England, 
in her will, April 12, 1660, left a legacy " to my son Edmund in New 
England." (w. p. 20 March 1661). 

A favorite physician of William the Conqueror was Frodo Needham, 
brother of the Abbot of St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Frodo held estates in 
Suffolk and in Essex 1086. To a younger son he gave Mendham and 
Needham. From this son descended the families of Mendham and 
Needham in Norfolk. 

78. Wheat, Watertown, Mass. 
Doctor Samuel Wheat (77-2 ), physician, was successful 
in his profession and acquired considerable wealth. He mar- 
ried first Lydia, "who joined the church in Concord." — 
Bond' 's Watertown. She died April 6, 1720, aged 44, and was 
buried at Dedham. He married second at Needham, Nov. 8, 
1720, Mary Chadwick, who survived him The names of 
the twins suggest that Lydia was a Jemrison, or possibly her 
mother was Lydia Jennison. 



58 Wheat Genealogy. 

i. Samuel, b. Watertown, Oct. 2, 1703, d. Aug. 9, 
1770. 

2. Salmon, b. Watertown, Jan. 7, 1705-6. 

3. Benjamin, b. d. Norwich, Ct. Jan. 27, 1758, 

aged 49. 

4. Solomon (79), b. d. about 1797. See 79 A. 

5. Jennison, ) , „ , „ 

6 Lvdia \ ' Watertown, May 8, 17 13, d. before 

1735- 
Samuel, Salmon and Benjamin left families. They will be 
described in a later volume. 

78 A. Dr. Samuel Wheat bought land in several towns, all 
near Boston. He resided in turn at Concord, Newton, 
Watertown, Needham, Cambridge and Roxbury. From his 
widow's statement it appears that he visited the Bermuda 
Islands. Land was sold 1733, for ,£ioo. He died 1735, at 
the age of fifty-eight, while many of his ancestors and 
descendants have exceeded ninety years. Possibly he went 
to Bermuda for his health, and may have died there. As 
landmarks in his history a few quotations from Middlesex 
Deeds are presented. 

Dec. 19,1701, " I Joshua Wheat of Concord .... hav- 
ing purchased the Housings, Land & Tenements which 
belonged to my brother John Wheat of Concord, given unto 
him by our honored father Moses Wheat, deceased, in his last 
will . . . ; to show my care .... for my eldest son 
vizt : Sam'l Wheat of Concord .... do give .... 
unto him one half of sd Tenements . . . " ; April 3, 1703, 
Samuel Wheat of Newton bought one rood in Newton for 
twenty shillings ; Aug. 23, 1703, Samuel Wheat of Water- 
town bought two lots, twenty-seven acres, in Watertown for 
,£24; Oct. 11, 1712, of Watertown bought seven acres in 
Watertown "with mansion house, barne and orchard" for 
^91 ; Feb. 14, 1715, of Watertown, and wife Lydia, sold 
seven acres (above) for ^130; June 6, 1722, of Needham, 
bought "lot, house and smith shop " in Cambridge for ^"46- 



Dr. Solomon Wheat 59 

10-00 ; April 25, 1733, of Roxbury, and wife Mary, sold land 
for £ 100. 

From probate records of Suffolk county, Mass. , it appears 
that, Aug. 1, 1735, Dr. Samuel Wheat of Newton was made 
administrator for the estate of Dr. Samuel Wheat, late of 
Roxbury, deceased. Widow Wheat accepted ^166 as her 
dower, and called herself " Mary Wheat of Watertown, widow 
of Dr. Samuel Wheat late of Bermudas in the West Indies." 
The heirs divided the remainder of the estate into five equal 
parts, two for Samuel who must pay all debts, and one for 
each of his brothers. They signed in the following order : 

1. Samuel Wheat of Newton, Massachusetts, physician ; 

2. Salmon Wheat of Canterbury, Connecticut ; 

3. Benjamin Wheat of Norwich, Connecticut ; 

4. Solomon Wheat of Sea Brook, New London county, 

Conn. 

79. Wheat, Windham, Conn. 

Doctor 5olomon Wheat (78-4 ), physician, married first 
Annie who died after 1747. He married second Margaret 
who probably died before 1770 for she is not mentioned in the 
" warning out " at Westford. Records so far as discovered, 
give him four children with a probable fifth, Jemima. The 
daughters are the children of Annie ; the son is probably the 
child of Margaret, for tradition (3) makes him " the only son 
of Dr. Solomon Wheat and Peggy Green." 

i. Annie, b. at Windham, Ct., July 8, 1736. 

2. Hannah, b. at Windham, Ct., July 16, 1738. 

3. Jemima (?), Uxbridge intentions of marriage, 79B. 

4. Elizabeth, b. at Windham, Nov. 14, 1747, [d. at Need- 

ham, Mass., Dec. 16, 1807 (?) ] 

5. Solomon (80), b. 1750 (?) d. March 1841, aged 89. 

79 A. Dr. Solomon Wheat was a "rolling stone" and gath- 
ered little " moss.'' He left footprints in the various towns 
in which he sojourned in the form of deeds recorded in the 
land offices, and of vital records on the town books. 



60 Wheat Genealogy. 

June 18th, 1734, he mortgaged his place in Saybrook, Conn, 
to Benjamin Wheat and John Carew, both of Norwich, Conn. ; 
June 2, 1735, he sold this property to Sarah Martyn of Boston ; 
Aug. 1, 1735, he signed the settlement of his father's estate 
at Boston and was then of Saybrook ; three daughters were 
born to Solomon and Annie Wheat at Windham, Conn., 1736, 
1738 and 1747; July 1, 1738, he bought sixty-five acres 
in Needham, Mass. for ^600 and was of Windham ; June 14, 
1739, he sold land in Needham and was of Ashford, Conn.; 
Aug. 17, 1752, he bought land in Ashford, and was of Wind- 
ham ; 1753, he bought in Uxbridge, Mass. and was of Men- 
don, Mass.; July 8, 1759, he sold the Uxbridge land, and wife 
"Margery" signed; March 13, 1759, " Benjamin Robinson 
of Providence, R. I., Cordwainer, .... in consideration 
of Two Thousand pounds . . . grant, sell ... to 
Solomon Wheate of Uxbridge, County of Worcester, Province 
of Massachusetts Bay in New England, practicioner in physics 
. . . . lot with dwelling house in Providence;" 1761, 
forty-seven residents of Providence subscribed for a township 
on Tantimar river in Nova Scotia ; Nov. 29, 1762, " Solomon 
Wheat of Hopkinton, County of Middlesex, Province of 
Massachusetts Bay in New England, Physician, .... 
in consideration of Three Hundred Fifty Spanish Milled 
Dollars .... give, grant .... to Amos Horton 
of Providence, R. I., mason, .... lot with dwelling 
house in Providence .... wife signed, Margret 
Wheat" ; Aug. 24, 1767, of Needham, he bought land in 
Westford, Mass., and was taxed therefrom 1768 to 1771 and 
again in 1774; In September 1770 he was "warned out" 
of Westford by the selectmen who called him ' 'Solomon Wheat 
from Needham"; Oct. 24, 1797, "Solomon Wheat of Chatham, 
Conn., Clerk " and wife Hannah (80) sold land at Westford, 
Mass., being the whole tract that my honored father lately 
owned." 

Being " warned out" is not proof that he was an undesir 
able citizen. It was a legal form which relieved the town of the 
care of the persons warned should they become paupers. To 



Solomon and Hannah Wheat. 6i 

protect the town, some boards of selectmen warned out nearly 
every new-comer. No one was expected to leave for the 
warning. Each member of the family was named in the 
warning. Since Solomon Wheat is named alone he certainly 
had no wife or child dependent on him in 1 770. Where he lived 
from 1775 to 1797 is not known. He is not on the muster 
rolls of Westford for the Revolution, nor on the list of tories. 

79B. Uxbridge records: John Burnap of Hopkinton, Mass. 
and Anna Wheat of Uxbridge were married May 1, 1755- 
Intention of marriage between Joseph Taler of Concord, Mass. 
and Hannah Wheat of Uxbridge was published, Aug. 18, 
1758 ; and between Abraham Taylor of Concord and Jemima 
Wheat of Uxbridge, Nov. 18, 1758. 

Needham records : Elizabeth Wheat died Dec. 16, 1807. 

80. Wheat, Chatham, Conn. 

Doctor Solomon Wheat, (79-5), physician and baptist 
elder, studied and practiced the healing art with his father at 
Westford, Mass. He married Oct. 31, 1769, Hannah 
Richardson, baptized 1750, died June 6, 1842, aged ninety- 
two, daughter of Thomas Richardson and Rebecca Read 
(80J). They resided at Westford 1774 and, possibly, later. 
From 1 78 1 to 1834 they resided in the town of Chatham, 
Conn., near the border of Glastonbury. In the summer of 
1834 they removed to Franklin, N. Y., and spent the remain- 
der of their days at the home of their son William. 

In Connecticut he was called Doctor Wheat; at Franklin he 
was Elder Wheat. Their family bible contains the names of 
thirteen children with dates of births : 



I. 


Solomon, 


b. Aug. 24, 1770, d. Jan. 28, 


1777. 


2. 


William (81), 


b. Jan. 19, 1772, d. March 7, 


1868. 


3- 


Thomas, 


b. Jan. 14, 1774. 




4- 


Samuel, 


b. May 25, 1776. 




5- 


Solomon, 


b. April 24, 1778. 




6. 


John, 


b. Nov. 17, 1779. 




7- 


James, 


b. Nov. 18, 1781. 




8. 


Rebecca, 


b. Oct. 17, 1783. 




9- 


Hannah Richardson 


b. Nov. 3, 1785, d. 1827. 





62 Wheat Genealogy. 

io. Benjamin Eovell, b. Sept, 17, 1787. 

11. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 17, 1789. 

12. Sally, b. Jan. 21, 1791, d. Mar. 21, 1825. 

13. Aaron, b. Feb. 12, 1793. 

80 A. The only record of a tax-bill presented to Dr. Wheat 
at Westford is dated Nov. 11, 1774, and is for one poll and 
personal property. Probably this bill was presented the first 
year after he reached his majority, which supports the tradi- 
tion that he was married before he was eighteen. Where he 
resided from 1775 to 1780 is not known. Tradition says he 
was a surgeon in the patriot army. No record of such ser- 
vice can be found in Washington or in any New England 
state. The records, however, are incomplete, especially in 
regard to surgeons, chaplains and musicians. Perhaps he 
served his country as he did his church — " in °A free State 
.... at my own opsion When & Where I Please on Seeing 
A Call of God therefor." 

June 20, 1781. " Solomon Wheat of Windsor" purchased 
a farm in the northern part of the town of Chatham, Conn. 
No record of him has been found at any Windsor in New 
England. The farm was near East Glastonbury with which 
place he was identified rather than with Chatham. 

80B. At what time he abandoned the practice of medi- 
cine to become a clergyman is not known. Probably the 
transition was gradual, and he ministered alike to the physical 
and the spiritual infirmities of his people. A history of Mid- 
dlesex county says, " A baptist church was organized in the 
northern part of Chatham in 1783 and had members from 
Glastonbury. It ceased to exist many years ago." While 
pastor of a church he took up the work of evangelist, 
traveling on horseback to all parts of Connecticut, and 
preaching wherever he could find an audience. 

80C. When age and failing strength compelled him to 
give up preaching and the loss of his property obliged him to 
seek a new home, he made a journey alone on horseback to 
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state of New York. At the latter place lived his son Aaron, 
who had become a prominent citizen and politician, and had 
held the office of sheriff. One afternoon while surrounded 
by a group of his townsmen the ex-sheriff was surprised and 
deeply mortified at the unexpected appearance of the vener- 
able parson clad in a suit that had long since proved its merit 
for durability and sitting bestride an enormous pair of saddle- 
bags, which almost hid from view the faithful steed whose 
best days, like his master's, were flown. 

The son lost no time in getting the aged pilgrim and his 
mount into comfortable quarters and then upbraided his father 
for not sending word of his intended visit and of his misfor- 
tune, for then money would have been sent so that the journey 
might have been made in comfort, and his appearance in keep- 
ing with his son's estate. Doctor Wheat regarded the inci- 
dent as an amusing joke at his son's expense, and a much 
needed lesson in humility. 

80D. After a year spent with their daughter Rebecca (Mrs. 
David Matson) at Owego, Doctor and Hannah Wheat found a 
home with their son William at Franklin, where the balance 
of their four-score-and-ten years passed quietly by. After 
the lapse of half a century the older people of both Franklin 
and Glastonbury were fond of relating anecdotes of this 
worthy couple. Their zeal in the cause of religion and their 
" good looks " were the chief subjects of these anecdotes. 

From anecdotes related by those who knew Doctor and 
Hannah Wheat. — Doctor Wheat in preaching was always 
aglow with emotion ; in conversation his theme was always 
religion, impressing everyone with his sincerity and constancy; 
a zealous sectarian and somewhat egotistical ; on entering a 
house he always said, " Peace be unto this house." Hannah 
Wheat was an excellent example of the Christian mother ; 
she seemed the embodiment of peace ; she was indeed a beau- 
tiful woman at eighty-eight ; her faculties were much better 
preserved than her husband's ; she was then (at 88) superior 
to him in intellect, good sense and consistency. 



64 Wheat Genealogy. 

Doctor Wheat was vain of good looks. He was fond of 
calling attention to the beauty of his wife, for which every- 
body excused him on the ground of sufficient reason ; and of 
repeating that the venerable Thomas Whiting said, ' ' You are 
the handsomest couple I ever married." 

80 E. Their courtship has a touch of romance. Some time 
after their settlement at Westford he asked his father, " Who 
is the first lady in Westford? " " Hannah Richardson," was 
the reply. There was an accident — a runaway or something 
of the sort — and the young physician, going to the street, 
assisted to carry in and restore the unconscious Hannah Rich- 
ardson. " Then and there began a love which never waned, 
and was never marred by an unkind word, but grew brighter 
and sweeter with age." (Doctor Wheat at eighty-eight.) 

When a lad he was converted by the preaching of a sect 
called New Lights. He persuaded his father to attend ser- 
vices with him the next Sabbath. They rose early for the 
ride of ten miles on horseback. As they drew near and heard 
the singing the father became deeply agitated and exclaimed, 
1 ' I woke this morning from a dream in which I heard a con- 
gregation singing that very hymn." He, too, became a con- 
vert to the new sect. 

80F. A fragment of Elder Wheat's diary for 1787-8 was 
found several years ago. The penmanship was a model of 
neatness ; there were no marks of punctuation, and capitals 
were tossed about in wildest confusion. He wrote as well as 
most men of his time. Quotations from the diary give some 
light on his work and character. The first line relates to 
Dec. 5, 1787. The first part of the entry for that date is 
missing. 

"3C&3 V Except A man be born Agan &c it was good to 
be there Next Day Reached Tolland & the next Day at 
Eavening Preached at Deacon Mungers House Spake from 
Luke 13 C & 34 Vers O Jerusalem &c I think the Lord Did 
not Leave us Comfortles there Was I humbly think a Brease 
of the holy Speret 8 Next Day Road to mansfield Altho I was 
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Solomon and Hannah Wheat. 65 

Prest me hard to stay & Finally I Agreed if there was as 
Grait A freadom in Mr Coddingtons mind or at Least he de- 
sired it or was free & I was informed that one of his Church 
was So Desierus as to go 3 or 4 miles to See & ask him but 
the Pint turned here if my Name was found Encluded in the 
Number of the Association well I might Preach & Not Elsese 
The Lord Deliver us from Parish Lines I Bere my Testimony 
Against such Bondes I reached mansfield that Day & Preached 
on the Sabath Day folowing was Kindly Receaved & Made 
Welcom I was free in Preaching found the Lord Did Not Send 
me Where he himSelf Did not Come Preached Again in the 

Eavening O how Sencabely Did the Lord Draw neare 

of A truthe my hart was Enlarged to speake to them The 
next Day I preached in y e meating hous at 2 Oclok held meat- 
ing in the Eavening Again & Being Ready to Depart on the 
morrow took my Leave of them in the feare of the Lord I 
Think the Lord has begun a Work there 12 Day Reached my 
Own house & found my family All well may I never forget 

the Lordes Benefits 16 Day Road to Oxford to 

Break Bread. . . 17 Break Bread in the Afternon. . . . 
the Lord Did Crown the feaste 18 Day Returned to Eastbeary 
. . . . y e Saboth folowing [Dec. 23, '87] it was Very 
Snowy & Dificult however I went to meating a menester must 
be an Ensampel to the flock Surely the Care is Grait . . . 
27 Day set out on a journey to New London 
. . . . at Evening Came to Deaken Bikets one of Elder 
Minors Deakens at Lime of the Congregational order Was 

Kindly Receaved & Well Entertaned 30 Sabath 

Day Road on into New London Preached in the State House 
to a Large Asembeley it was a blesed season Both in the 
former and Later Part of the Day the Lord I trust was Pleased 
to Draw Near and Cause our hartes to Rejoice & Exult in his 
truthe many Spake of his glory in the temple .... the 
Lord is dowing a Grait worke there • . . my heart re- 
joices. . . how love I thy Law o Lord Ride forth Con- 

quoring and to Conquer January 1 Day Road 

to Elder Darracks Meating House Preached there at 1 oclock 



66 Wheat Genealogy. 

the Lord is to work there & Santes Rejoice it was good to be 
there Road thre miles farther and Preached Again in the 
Evening & the Lord did Bow the tented heaven his Glory did 
Seam to fill the House one soul did say he had Bin a ship in 
Distress that Discovered the Light house & Rejoiced in the 
Love of Christ . . . first Sabath in may Preacht to my 
own flock & Peopel A Good Day Endead . . . monday 
12 Day of may Atended a Church meating at Hartford five 
miles & At That Time Asked a Dismission from my Church 
or the oversight of it as there pastor . . . that I Mighte 
be in A free State to Evangelis Preach Baptis & Brake Bread 
at my own opsion When and W T heare I Please on Seeing A 
Call of God therefor Which I think Apears to bee my Great- 
est Liberty & Alotment." 

What action, if any, was taken on the petition is not 
stated. He went on as before making journeys, preaching 
" all Day & at Eavening Again," rejoicing " to see the Work 
florish," blessing <; God for the Earnest of his Speret " and 
for the joy of seeing " the Bretheren Graitly Engaged & 
Many Poor Sinners Crying to God for Mercey," and return- 
ing again ' ' home to my family ... & Preached to my 
own flock & Brake Bread." 

May 15 he set out for Norwich and other places ; returned 
May 30 and wrote — " the Lord hath Enlarged my steps under 
me .... at Evening time the light shines Gloresly I 
expect that the Santes Are About to Stand (or Hand ?) in 
there lot in the Last Dayes ; " and returning from the next 
journey — " I have seen much of y e Goodness of God in this 
journey Not one Dry meating ; " and June 27 — " Road home 
to my own house found my family in Good health the Lord 
Doth Keep them all I can do is to Pray for & give them up 
to God [who] Wonderfully Preserves them in my absence 
.• . . the Lord enable me to do my duty to & for them as 
fare as I am Required I have enjoyed a free mind in all these 
ten meatings & one Baptism." 

80Q. Under the prayers of an absent father, and the 
watchful care of a patient mother whose prayers were not 



Solomon and Hannah Wheat. 67 

omitted because she was present, their eight sons and four 
daughters grew up. The self-denial of the father in aban- 
doning the practice of medicine and foregoing the comforts 
of home to bear the gospel to needy souls is dwarfed by the 
fortitude of the mother who, without complaint, assumed the 
care of her household amid dangers which were neither few 
nor trifling. 

The deadly rattlesnake lurked in every field. The neigh- 
bors — none lived within sight — were mostly self-respecting 
people; but there were enough of the ruder sort to keep un- 
protected women in a constant state of apprehension. For 
example ; — a young women asleep with her mother was 
awakened at midnight, not by soft music under her window, 
but by her lover shouting, " Now or never ! " 

"Dress quick," says her mother, "Don't stop for shoes 
and stockings, but run along with them in your hand." Soon 
the ardent lover was knocking at Elder Wheat's door, while 
his lady sat on the steps clothing her feet. They were mar- 
ried about one o'clock A. M. 

80H. Elder Wheat claimed to have "presentiments." 
Sometimes they came as audible words, and the forms of the 
speakers were visible. "Three angels fairer than Eve," he 
said, " visit me and speak tome." Miss Arvilla Blair, for 
more than half a century a teacher in Franklin, and under 
whose instruction it was my good fortune to come, said, " On 
a pleasant day in early spring, Elder Wheat came from the 
field to Mr. Harvey Scott's house, being apparently quite 
well, and in my hearing, said, among other things, ' I have 
seen my angels this morning. They tell me in one week I 
shall walk no more ; I shall fly. I heard music from an un- 
seen choir excelling earthly music' A week from that day 
his spirit went to join the unseen choir." His aged com- 
panion caught the failing form in her arms and entreated, 
" Don't go, daddy ; Don't leave me; wait a little longer and 
I will go with you." All day she wept not, but spoke to him 
often and seemed fully persuaded that he could hear her and 
would rise and speak to her. 



68 Wheat Genealogy. 

Dr. Wheat may have been visionary and possessed of a 
vivid imagination, but he was not unbalanced in mind ; for 
he followed the well established practices of society and 
sought to save souls by preaching and exhorting in con- 
formity with the rules and doctrines of an old and well-estab- 
lished denomination instead of setting up some new scheme of 
his own. He was ever full of the spirit, but was never a 
spiritualist. 

8oI. Hannah Richardson. — In Concord records : Solo- 
mon Wheat & Hannah Richardson both of Westford were 
Marr d by Thos. Whiting Esq. Oct. 3 1, 1769. At her decease, 
1842, Mrs. Wheat's age was set down as 92 years. By the 
church record at Westford, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and 
Rebecca Richardson, was baptized 1750. The burial records 
of Westford do not contain the name of Hannah, daughter of 
Thomas and Rebecca Richardson. The Richardson Memorial 
by Vinton does not record any Hannah of Westford whose 
age agrees with Hannah Wheat's age. Vinton supposes (p. 
68) that Hannah, b. Feb. 17, 1739, dau. of Benj. and Eunice 
of Vermont m. Solomon Wheat. But she would be thirty at 
the marriage, and one hundred two at the decease of Hannah 
Wheat. Vinton's Hannah is rejected as ineligible on three 
counts — age, residence, mother's name, Eunice. 

Hannah Wheat named her first daughter Rebecca, which 
was the name of her mother and her only sister. I find no 
other Hannah Richardson of that generation whose mother 
was named Rebecca. Thomas Richardson died seven years 
before the marriage of Solomon Wheat, leaving no will, nor 
was there any administration recorded in the probate office ; 
but his sons petitioned the court for a guardian, and Joseph 
Read of Westford was appointed, Sept. 9, 1762. 

In support of Hannah, daughter of Thomas Richardson of 
Westford, as the bride of Solomon Wheat are, — her age, resi- 
dence, daughter" s name Rebecca, absence of any contradictory 
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80J. Richardson Lineage. 

Hannah Richardson, baptized at Westford, Mass. 1750, d. at 
Franklin, N. Y. June 6, 1842, aged 92, m. Oct. 31, 1769, Dr. Solomon 
Wheat ; daughter of Thomas of Westford (304 Vinton), b. 29-1-1719, 
d. 1762, m. Aug. 1, 1745, Rebecca Read (had 1. Thomas, b. 1746; 2. 
Abijah, b. 1748 ; 3. Hannah, b. 1750 ; 4. Rebecca, b. 1752 ; 5. Wiley, 

b. 1754) ; son of James of Dracut, b. about 1687, m. Mary ; son 

of Thomas of Dracut, b. Oct. 26, 1661, d. Feb. 10, 1770, m. Sept. 28, 
1682, Hannah Colburn (dau. of Edward of Dracut) ; son of Lieut. 
James, bap. at Charlestown, July 11, 1641, had care of Wamesit Chris- 
tian Indians 1675, was in the encounter with hostile Indians July 31, 
1675, na( l command of the fort at Lowell, m. Nov. 28, 1660, Bridget 
Henchman (dau. of Maj. Thomas); son of Ezekiel from England 1630, 
settled at Woburn, Mass. d. Oct. 21, 1647, m. Susanna. 

81. Wheat, Franklin, N. Y. 
Captain William Wheat ( 8o- 2 ), mariner, followed the 
sea from 1786 to 1809, trading chiefly with the West Indies 
and South America. Hemarried, 1792, Hary Bolles, d. 1839, 
daughter of Joshua Bolles and Eunice Shepard. Their home 
was at Marlboro, Conn, until 181 1, when they removed to 
Franklin, N. Y., the skipper having forsaken the wheel for 
the plow, the dancing waves for the rocky hillsides. They 
died at Franklin and were buried in the old Baptist cemetery. 

1. Silas (82) , b. June 24, 1793, d. Dec. 6, 1888. 

2. William (102), b. Sept. 23, 1796, d. Feb. 27, 1872. 

3. Maria (118), b. June 19, 1799, d. Aug. 4, 1875. 

4. Eunice , b. April 12, 1801, d. Feb. 9, 1803. 

5. Solomon (126), b. Feb. 12, 1804, d. Aug. 1, 1874. 

6. Sylvester (142), b. Nov. 6, 1806, d. July 27, 1887. 

7. Eliza (154), b. March 3, 181 1, d. Dec. 10, 1883. 

8. Cyrus (162), b. March 28, 1813. 

9. Edward (173), b. July 14, 1816, d. 1876 (?). 

81 A. When a lad of fourteen, William and his brothers set 
traps for quails. A good deacon of his father's " flock " also 
set traps and laid trails of wheat chaff in a V form leading to 
his gins. The boys crossed the deacon's chaff with trails of 
real wheat and got many birds, while the deacon got none. 
When Doctor Wheat came home the deacon complained that 



7<d Wheat Genealogy. 

the boys had stolen his quails, and passed judgment that they 
should be flogged. 

William was punished, and at once began to look about for 
a chance to set up for himself and thus avoid similar conse- 
quences for business sagacity. He arranged with a sea-cap- 
tain to go on a voyage, and asked his father if he might be a 
sailor. "Yes," said the doctor, believing that the question 
related to future years. In the night, William, to avoid leave- 
taking, threw his bundle from the window, dropped to the 
ground and was off on his first voyage. 

At eighteen he was mate on a vessel owned by a Connecticut 
merchant whose son was captain. The ship, with a cargo of 
horses, was caught in a storm off the Bahamas. The mate, 
who had directed the shortening of sail, was surprised by an 
order to turn the horses loose on the deck and "make all 
sail;" at the same time the cry of the watch, "Breakers 
ahead ! " was not heeded by the captain at the wheel. Call- 
ing a sailor to take the wheel, the mate seized the terror- 
stricken captain, thrust him below and closed the hatch. 
When the danger was passed the captain was restored to his 
command. He had much to say about " mutiny " and " tak- 
ing the ship ' ' ; but when the circumstance was reported to 
the owner of the vessel the captain was given a berth on land, 
and the mate was promoted. 

81B. Being on the sea from 1786 to 1809 he did not escape 
the British " right of search " and the French "spoliation." 
To prevent the danger of impressment in the British navy 
American sailors carried a paper called Protection. Plate 2 is 
a facsimile of Captain Wheat's protection. His ship was 
searched by the British six times. He was captured by the 
French and held for ransom, but was released after the 
American navy had destroyed three French men-o-war. His 
ship and cargo were not restored to him, but France paid the 
United States $5,000,000 for the damage done to American 
commerce. Captain Wheat estimated his loss due to the 
French seizure at $40,000. The government is still holding 



JAMES MADISON, 

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gemelde reize vocrt te zetten, zodanig Schip of Vaartuig gevtii- 
teert zynde, en de voornoemdc Schipper of Beveihebber onder Ee*l6, 
voor den daar toe geftclden oiheier verkjaart hebbende dat ket ge- 
melde Schip of vartuig aan ecn or meerder ondcrdanen^ volk, of 
Ingezeetenen van dc Vcreenigde Staaten van America, totbehoort, 
en aan hem (of hun ;) aileen. 

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Captain Wiluam Whkat. 71 

the money in trust. The sufferers have long since ceased to 
complain. 

Afterward in company with Mr. Julius Curtis (?) and 
another landsman, he bought a ship, the "Betty," or some 
say the " Marlboro," which he was sailing when the embargo 
of 1807 was proclaimed. Returning to New London, Con- 
necticut, from a voyage to the West Indies the vessel and 
cargo were confiscated for violation of the embargo proclaimed, 
it is said, during his absence. The Embargo Act was passed 
Dec. 1807 and repealed Feb. 1809, the Non-intercourse Act 
forbidding trade with either England or France and the coun- 
tries allied with them being substituted for it. The clearance 
from St. Bartholomew, Oct. 21, 1809, plate 3, shows that 
Captain Wheat made at least one voyage after the repeal of 
the Embargo. It may have been a violation of the Non- 
intercourse Act which deprived him of vessel and cargo. In 
either case he was financially ruined, and the laws made it 
impossible for him to recover his fortune on the sea. Failing 
to secure any redress from the government he removed to 
Franklin, N. Y., in the autumn of 181 1. 

81C. The oxen were yoked to the cart, the household goods 
were loaded, the mother and the daughter of twelve climbed 
to the seat, the baby of five months was passed up to her 
mother's arms, two boys were stowed among the goods, the 
father and William walked behind, while Silas, who had been 
over the road before, drove the team. The family of eight 
souls and their entire earthly possessions were on the road. 
The carriage had no springs, the road was not always smooth ; 
it led straight up hill and straight down, through forests and 
across fords. The Hudson was crossed at Catskill by horse- 
power ferry-boat. Beyond Catskill the oxen became foot- 
sore, and a kind-hearted Quaker returning to Pennsylvania 
with an empty wagon took the cart in tow. 

Captain Wheat reached port with all souls well, and the 
cargo safe. They settled on Handsome Brook about four 
miles southeast of Franklin village, where Mrs. Wheat's 
father had settled a year earlier. The farm was long known 



72 Wheat Genealogy. 

as the Bolles homestead, and is now the property of D. B. 
Drake (86). It lies in a region of deep, narrow valleys with 
steep slopes, the hilltops being the only level ground. At that 
time the whole region was a vast forest of hard-wood timber — 
the range of the deer, the haunt of the black bear. 

81D. As a story-teller Captain Wheat was a decided success. 
Grave and reserved in manner, never demonstrative or bois- 
terous, yet never failing to bring down the house with peals 
of laughter. His tales were always entertaining, generally 
humorous, with well laid plot and skilfully developed charac- 
ters. They were made for, and fitted to, the occasion, the 
purpose generally being to ridicule some boaster or some 
opponent of his views. 

Of his courtship it is related that, when he sought the hand 
of Polly Bolles, her father replied, " It is an ancient custom 
in our family to give a daughter to that suitor who shall prove 
himself most worthy by a contest in athletic exercises open to 
all his rivals." The contest came off with running, leaping, 
hurling the discus, and wrestling. The young sailor was 
declared the victor and received his bride. 

81E. Bolles Lineage. 

nary Bolles, d. 1839, m. 1792, William Wheat ; — daughter of Joshua, 
b. Dec. 26, 1746, d. at Franklin, N. Y., 1812, m. Eunice Shepard of 
Hartford, Conn, and had Mary, m. Wheat and Harriet, m. Benj. S. 
Root; — son of Joshua, b. Aug. 5, 1717, d. Sept. 18, 1800, farmer on 
Bolles Hill, New London, Ct. m. 1, 1739, Joanna Williams, d. Oct. 28, 
!777> aged 55, daughter of Thomas, and had fifteen children ; m. 2. 
Grace, no child ; — son of John, b. 1677, d. Jan. 7, 1767, m. 1, 1699, 
Sarah Edgecomb daughter of John of New London, Ct. granddaughter 
of Nicholas of Plymouth, Eng., and had 10 children; m. 2, Elizabeth 
Wood of Groton, Ct., and had four children ; his mother was murdered 
1678, by a lad to whom she refused to lend an ax ; believing that he had 
been preserved for a special mission he devoted his life and fortune to 
the cause of religious freedom against the oppressive laws of Con- 
necticut ; — son of Thomas, b. at Wells, Maine, Dec. 1, 1644, d. at New 
London, Ct. May 26, 1727, m. Zipporah Wheeler of Groton, Ct, and had 
three children, two of whom were murdered with their mother 1678 ; m. 
three times but had no more children ; — son of Joseph, b. 1608, d. 1678, 



Silas Wheat. 73 

from England, was a trader on the Saco river, Maine, 1640 ; m. Mary 
(to whom Morgan Howell of Cape Porpoise, Maine, willed his entire 
estate and made her executor of his will) probably Mary Howell, and 
had eight children. He settled at Wells, Maine, and was town clerk 
from 1654 to 1664. 

Bolles ancestors from Bolles Genealogy, Boston, 1865. 

The name Bolles, spelled Boll, Bowls, etc. is on the Roll of Battle 
Abbey and in Domes Da)' Book. Several families of distinction bore 
the name from 1066 to 1700. 

Sir George Bolles, b. 1538, Lord Mayor of London 1618, stopped the 
king's carriages and retinue when they were " proceeding through the 
streets with clatter and noise on the Sabbath in time of divine service." 
His Majesty remarked that till then he had supposed " there had been 
no more kings in England but himself." 

82. Wheat, Franklin, N. Y. 

Silas Wheat( 81-1 ), farmer, married 1816, Eunice Dewey, 

b, Feb. 24, 1794, d. Nov. 26, 1857, daughter of Aaron Dewey 
and Sibyl Cadwell from Westfield, Mass. to Franklin, N. Y. 
They began life in a log house. After the forest had been 
cleared away a frame house was built, and finally a third 
house was erected and occupied. They were buried in the 
new cemetery at Franklin village. 

1. Sibyl Ann, b. Jan. 20, 1817, d. Nov. 7, 1817. 

2. Cordelia Eliza (83), b. Oct. 8, 1818, d. Nov. 28,1887. 

3. George Washington (88), b. April 1, 1821. 

4. Sylvanus Addison (97), b. April 7, 1323^. Aug.29, 1897. 

5. James Madison (99), b. April 5, 1825. 

6. William Dwight, b. May 8, 1827, d. Sept. 9, 1843. 

7. Mary Amanda (101), b. May23, 1829, d. April 17,1901. 

8. Maria Louise, b. June 1 1,1831, d. Feb. 15, 1845. 

9. Clarinda Rebecca, b. Nov. 22,1833^. Feb. 23, 1845. 
10. Lemira Frances, b. Oct. 4, 1835, graduated from 

D. L. I., resides at Franklin. 

82 A. Mr. Wheat grew up under the care of his mother, 
his father being on the sea. At the age of sixteen he drove 
the ox-team that conveyed his grandfather Bolles to his new 
home on Handsome Brook in the town of Franklin, N. Y. 



74 Wheat Genealogy. 

The following year he drove over the same road with his 
parents. 

He enlisted in the 69th regiment New York militia ; was 
commissioned Ensign, March 22, 1816, and Lieutenant, March 
4, 1817. 

He taught school in Owego, N. Y., had 60 pupils of all 
grades " from A-B-abs to the Rule of Three and the Roots." 

In 1 8 14 he bought and began clearing a farm near the 
source of Handsome Brook about two miles from his father's 
place. A log house was built, to which he brought his wife 
in 1 8 16. Deer and small game were abundant ; bears and 
wildcats sometimes visited the barnyard. Mr. Wheat was 
not a roving hunter, but had a good rifle and often dined on 
venison. He was enterprising and progressive. The best 
was none too good for him. He selected and bought the best 
land in the neighborhood, paying $2.50 per acre, double the 
price asked for adjoining land ; he was the first to own 
a spring wagon ; his residence was the largest and most 
imposing house for miles around. Mr. and Mrs. Wheat 
were active members of the Baptist church, and were ex- 
amples of piety, temperance and public spirit. They were 
first in the town of Franklin to abandon the practice of " treat- 
ing " callers and of furnishing rum to their farm laborers. 
The innovation produced much excitement among the farm- 
ers who feared that laborers would avoid the neighborhood 
and leave the crops unharvested. But more men applied than 
he could employ. Soon other families joined them in the 
total abstinence movement, and Franklin became a "no 
license " town. 

82B. Dewey Lineage. 

Eunice Dewey, b. at Westfield, Mass., d. at Franklin, N. Y., Oct., 
26, 1857, m. 1816, Silas Wheat ;— daughter of Aaron, b. at Westfield, 
January 15, 1751, d. Feb. 17, 1824, m. March 12, 1777, Sibyl Cadwell, 
b. Aug. 7, 1755, daughter of Abel and Anna (Dwight) Cadwell, of 
Franklin, N. Y.; — son of Aaron of Westfield, Mass. b. April 28, 1721, 
d. June 11, 1768, estate ^582, m. June 12, 1747, Sarah Noble, b. Aug. 11, 
1723, d. May 26, 1796, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Root) Noble ; 



Wheat of Franklin. 75 

—son of Israel, b. July 9, 1686, d. Jan. 26, 1728, estate /Si 2, m. Sarah 
Root, b. July 27, 1683, daughter of Thomas Root of Westfield ; — son of 
Thomas of Westfield, b. at Windsor, Ct. Feb. 16, 1640, d. April 27, 1690, 
held town offices, represented town in General Court, hotelkeeper with 
license, engaged in war against King Philip, m. at Dorchester, June 1, 
1663, Constant Hawes, b. July 16, 1642, d. April 27, 1702, daughter of 
Richard and Ann Hawes from England ;— son of Thomas from Sand- 
wich, Kent, England 1633, settled at Dorchester, Mass., rem., -1635 to 
Windsor, Ct. m. March 22, 1639, widow Frances Clark and had 1. 
Thomas, 2. Anna, 3. Josiah, 4. Israel, 5 Jedediah. 

Admiral George Dewey is eighth in descent from Thomas and Frances 
Dewey, the line being Thomas from Eng.; Josiah, b. 1641 ; Josiah, 1666; 
William, 1692; Simeon, 1718; William, 1746 ; Simeon, 1777 ; Julius Y., 
1801 ; George 1837. ["Life of George Dewey and Dewey Family His- 
tory" by L. M. Dewey, Westfield, Mass.] 

83. Drake, Franklin, N. Y. 

Cordelia Eliza Wheat ( 82-2 ) married, Jan. 7, 1846, 
Abial Drake, Jr., farmer, b. Sept. 18, 1816, d. Oct. 7, 1891, 
son of Abial Drake, Sr. and Fanny Maynardof Franklin. Mr. 
and Mrs. A. Drake, Jr. lived and died on their farm on 
Handsome Brook four miles from the village. They were 
members of the Methodist ' Episcopal church and were liberal 
in the support of churches and schools. About 1862 they 
bought the Bolles homestead (81C) which joined their farm 
and is now the property of their son Dwight B. 

1. William Abial (84), b. Jan. 29, 1848. 

2. Dwight Benson (86), b. Nov. 11, 1850. 

3. EllaE., b. Oct. 27, 1853, artist, resides in 

New York city, member of the Art Students' 
League. 

4. Frances L. (87), b. Mar. 4, 1857. 

84. Drake, Pueblo, Colo. 

William Abial Drake (83-1), civil engineer, graduated 
from D. L. I. 1868; was employed on survey for N. Y. , 
Ont. & W. Ry to 1871 ; on Lake Ont. Shore Ry. to 1876 ; 
was division engineer between Pueblo and Canon City 1878- 
'9 ; was locating the Atlantic and Pacific Ry. i88o-'i, and 
had charge of construction of same to 1883 ; was chief 



76 Wheat Genealogy. 

engineer of same road to 1885 when a change in manage- 
ment relieved all employes ; was employed by the Sante Fe, 
Prescott and Phoenix Ry. Co. to 1891, being superintendent 
of the western division i888-'9i ; is now general superinten- 
dent with headquarters at Prescott, Arizona. 

He married, Sept. 10, 1873, Julia Harvin, daughter of 
Geo. Marvin of Northfield, N. Y. 

1. Mattie Marvin (85), b. July 3, 1874. 

2. Nellie Hells, b July 26, 1876. 

3. Dorothy Lois, b. July 27, 1890. 

85. McClung, Pueblo, Colo. 

riattie flarvin Drake (84-1) married, Nov. 28, 1900, 
Herbert James flcClung, banker, b. Aug. 24, 1869, son of 
James S. McClung and Lois Clark of Pueblo. 

86. Drake, Franklin, N. Y. 

Dwight Benson Drake (83-2 ), farmer educated at D. L. I., 
married, Jan. 7, 1880, Emily F. Treadwell, b. Dec. 25, 
1847, daughter of Chas. L. Treadwell (son of Herman 
and Lavina Treadwell of New Milford, Conn., and bro. of 
Hartson Treadwell) and Margaret Merrick from Monson, 
Mass. to Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Drake live on the home- 
stead, which includes the Bolles homestead. 

1. Mary Margaret, b. Nov. 26, 1881. 

2. Grace Cordelia, b. Feb. 21, 1884. 

87. Frothingham, Delta, Colo. 

Frances L. Drake ( 83-4 ) graduated from D. L. I., married. 
May 21, 1884, Rev. Harold J. Frothingham, b. in Indian 
Ty. May, 5, 1858. 

His father was a preacher and now lives in Chicago. Rev. 
H.J. Frothingham graduated from Hamilton College and 
from Auburn Theo. Seminary ; has been preaching since 1884 ; 
has been pastor at Warsaw, 111., Spirit Lake, Iowa, and 
elsewhere. 

1. Ruth Hazel, b. Oct. 20, 1887. 

2. Harold H., b. June 11, 1900, d. Mar, 2, 1901. 



Wheat of Tread well. 77 

88. Wheat, TreadwELL, N. Y. 
George Washington Wheat ( 82-3 ), farmer, educated at 
D L- I , taught five terms; was teaching in Bovina, N. Y., 
during the Anti-rent War of 1843 ; enlisted in the Franklin 
light infantry, served one year as corporal, two years as 
orderly, and four years as ensign; married, Feb. 20, 1850, 
Alice Eliza Gay, b. July 28, 1824, d. March 4, 1893, daughter 
of William Gay and Almira Benton of Croton (now Tread - 
well), from Connecticut about 1820. For more than forty 
years they were first in the support of the church and school 
in their vicinity. Free from ostentation, they were constant 
and consistent examples of practical Christianity and public 
spirit. Mr. Wheat lives on the homestead which his father 
cleared from the virgin forest. 

1. William Dwight (89), b. Dec. 4, 1850. 

2. Silas Carmi (91), b. Dec. 11, 1852. 

3. a son b. Dec. 28, 1854, d. an infant. 
4 Walter Dewey (92), b Jan. 8, 1856. 

5. George Gay (93), b. Dec 17, 1857 

6. James Edgar (94), b. April 10, i860 

7. Francis Irving (95), b. Jan. 27, 1862 

8. Charles Sumner (96), b. Aug. 26, 1864 

88 A. Gay Lineage. 

Alice Eliza Gay, b. July 28, 1824, d. March 4, 1893, tn. Feb. 20, J 850, 
George W. Wheat ;— daughter of William, b. at Sharon, Ct. May 7, 
1798, d. Aug. 24, 1861, m. at Northeast, N. Y., Aug. 26, 1819, Almira 
Benton, b. March 21, 1793, d. Oct. 3, 1884, daughter of Ezra Benton and 
Phebe White of Salisbury, Ct., rem. to Franklin, N. Y., 1820, farmer 
and colporteur for the American Bible Society, a prominent Methodist, 
often called "Methodist''' Gay; — son of Edward, "Master'' 1 Gay, b. 
Sharon, Ct., Feb. 3, 1763, d. at Franklin, N. Y., taught in many 
towns of Connecticut and New York, a soldier in the Revolution (see 
pension paper below), m. May 13, 1783, Mary White, b. Danbury, Ct., 
May 12, 1760, daughter of Israel White and Phebe Sanford — son of 
Perez of Sharon, b. at Litchfield, Ct., Jan. 5, 1735, d. Dec. 15, 1784, m. 
March 23, 1762, Margaret Fairbanks ; — son of John of Sharon, b. at Ded- 
ham, Mass , July 8, 1699, d. Aug. 6, 1792, among first settlers of Litch- 
field, Ct., m. Lydia Colvert, d. May 9, 1787, aged 86; — son of John of 
Dedham, Mass., b. June 25, 1668, d. June 17, 1758, m. May 24, 1692, Mary 



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Wheat Genealogy. 



Fisher, d. May 18, 1748; — son of Samuel of Dedham, b. March 10, 1639, 
d. April 15, 1718, m. Nov. 23, 1661, Mary Bridge, d. April 13, 1718;— son of 
John Gay of Dedham, Mass. from England in the " Mary & John " 1630, 
and settled at Watertown, Mass., was one of the 19 who removed 1636 
to found the new town of " Contentment " (Dedham), d. March 4, 1688, 
in his will calls his wife Joanna. She died Aug. 14, 1691. They had 
eleven children. [For Gay Lineage see "American Ancestry," Vol. 
XI, p. 31.] 

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Wheat of Fair Valley. 79 

89. Wheat, Fair Valley, Oklahoma. 
William Dwight Wheat (88-1), farmer, educated at 

D. L. Li taught in New York and New Jersey ; married, Feb. 
12, 1877, Lois Orene Leach, b. Oct. 16, 1852, daughter of 
Elias Leach and Sarah Perrin of Genessee Forks, Penn.; re- 
moved 1878 to Broderick, Kansas, and 1901 to Fair Valley, 
where he now resides. 

1. Ernest Dwight (90), b. Nov. 16, 1877. 

2. George Dewey, b. Oct 24, 1880. 

3. Harry Edgar, b. Nov. 22, 1882. 

4. Alice Hope, b. Oct. 16, 1884. 

5. Bertha Lemira, b. June 19, 1888. 

90. Wheat, Fair Valley, Oklahoma. 

Ernest Dwight Wheat (89-1 ), farmer ; married, Sept. 16, 
1901, riaude Howard, b. Feb. 18, 1881, daughter of Jasper 
M. Howard and Vernela Yarrington. The same year he 
filed a claim for and obtained a quarter section of goverment 
land near Fair Valley. 

1. William Howard, b June 9, 1902. 

91. Wheat, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Silas Carmi Wheat (88-2 ), teacher, graduated 1876 from 
D. L. I.; taught in New Jersey 1874 to 1890 except the year 
1876; after 1890 taught in Kings County, N. Y. and in the 
City of New York ; received from New York University the 
degree Master of Pedagogy, 1898; married, Dec. 26, 1876, 
Josephine A. Wright, b. April 13, 1854, daughter of Seaman 
Wright and Mary Romaine of Summit, N. J., from New York 
city 1857. 

1. Nina Ethel, b. at Summit, March 24, 1878. 

2. Grace Alice, b. at Closter, N. J. July 18, 1880. 

3. Howard Irving, b. at Madison, N. J. May 28, 1884. 

92. Wheat, New York, N. Y. 

Walter Dewey Wheat (88-4 ) f teacher, graduated 1879 from 
D. L. I. and 1884 from Williams College ; taught in New 



8o Wheat Genealogy. 

Jersey 1884 to 1894, since then in New York city ; married, 
July 21, 1886, Lizzie A. Conkling, b. April 12, 1857, daughter 
of C. N. Conkling and Lydia A. Bird of Liberty Corner, N. J. 

1. Lydia Frances, b. Mar. 30, 1892. 

2. Charles Conkling, b. June 20, 1893. 



93- Wheat, Los Angeles, Cal. 

George Gay Wheat ( 88- s ), educated at D. L. L, teacher 
and bookkeeper ; taught in Franklin and "boarded around." 
Removed to Kansas 1880 and taught at St. Mary's ; was 
elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for Pottawatomie 
county 1884 and 1886 ; mayor of Westmoreland 1888, and to 
the City Council 1890. Was assistant secretary of the state 
senate 1891. From 1891 to 1902 was accountant in the 
general office of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.; since 
January, 1903, a real estate broker in Los Angeles. 

He married, May 19, 1885, Eva Stella Jenner, b. Oct. 26, 
1863, daughter of Dr. Jacob F. Jenner (93 A) and Mary Brad- 
shaw of St. Mary's, Kansas. Resided at Westmoreland, Kan. 
1 884- 1 890 ; at Topeka until 1898 when they removed to Los 
Angeles, Cal. 

1. Willie Reddick, b. March 23, 1886, d. July 23, 1886. 

2. George Jenner, b. March 22, 1889. 

3. Willard Dewey, b. April 24, 1896. 

93 A. Dr. Jacob Frederick Jenner, b. at Wurtemberg, Germany, Jan. 
16, 1828, d. April 23, 1895, at the age of nine came to America with his 
parents and a large family of brothers and sisters. At 13 years started 
out for himself, earned a living, acquired a good education and the 
degree of M. D. He m. Jan. 29, 1857 Mary Jane Bradshaw, b. Nov. 5, 
1841 at St. Joseph, Mo., dau. of Charles and Jennie (Adair) Bradshaw. 

1. Lula Bell, b. Feb. 15, 1862, m. N. W. Reddick. 

2. Eva Stella, b. Oct. 26, 1863, m. G. G. Wheat. 

3. David Edward, b. Feb. 2<5, 1865, res. Shawnee, Ok. 

4. Kate May, b. Sept. 26, 1867, m. W. I. Boyer. 

5. Jesse Fremont, b. Aug. 24, 1875, m. F. L. Baker. 



Wheat of California. 8i 

94- Wheat, Fernando, Cal. 

Doctor James Edgar Wheat (88-6 ), physician, educated 
at D. L. I. ; taught several years in Queens county, N. Y. ; 
removed to Los Angeles, Cal.; studied medicine at the Uni- 
versity of Southern California ; took degree M. D. 1900 ; has 
a successful practice at Fernando. He married, Dec. 20, 
1901, Luna Murphy, b. at Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 1, 1870, 
daughter of Rev. Archibald Kail Murphy and Lauretta C. 
Wood. Mr. Murphy was a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, 
b. Jan. 1, 1828 ; d at Los Angeles March 22, 1897. Mrs. 
Murphy resides at Fernando. 

1. Lauretta Alice, b. Feb. 20, 1903. 

95- Wheat, Los Angeles, Cal. 

Rev. Francis Irving Wheat (88-7 ), graduated 1883 from 
D. L- I. ; studied at Williams College and at Boston Univer- 
sity, was pastor of the Congregational Church at Holliston, 
Mass., and at Woodhaven, N. Y.; removed to California 1898 
and was pastor of a church in San Francisco ; has since 
engaged in editorial work. He married, Nov. 18, 1890, 
Catherine Belle Pierce, b. May 3, 1864, daughter of Wash- 
ington Pierce and Frances Clark of Northfield, N. Y. Mrs. 
Wheat graduated from Albany (N. Y.) Normal School and 
taught several years. 

1. Charles Irving, b. Dec. 5, 1892. 

96. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 

Charles Sumner Wheat (88-8 ;, farmer, residing on the 
homestead ; educated at D. L. I.; taught several terms ; mar- 
ried, Sept. 25, 1889, Lydia Francis Hall, b. July 27, 1869, 
daughter of Roger Hall and Hannah Jester of Treadwell. 

1. Irving Hall, b. Jan. 25, 1895. 

2. Edgar Gay, b. June 25, 1897. 

3. Harold Dewey, b. Jan. 16, 1903. 



82 Wheat Genealogy. 

97- Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 

Sylvanus Addison Wheat (82-4 ), farmer, married, Nov. 
12, 1849, Rachel Loveland, b. August 8, 1828, daughter 
of Benjamin Loveland and Clarissa Mann of Franklin. He 
enlisted in the 144th N. Y. Volunteers and served in the 
Civil War until his health failed and he was discharged Apr. 8, 
1863. He invented a well-bucket and windlass of superior 
merit, but pumps coming into general use, little profit was 
realized from it. He did much for the public school, and 
more than any neighbor toward the improvement of roads in 
his vicinity. 

1. Louisa A., b. March 24, 1852, d. April 6, 1852. 

2. Mary A., b. Aug. 26, 1853, d - Oct. 5, 1861. 

3. Emma E., b. Oct. 27, 1855, d. Oct. 3, 1861. 

4. Alice C, b. June 4, 1858, d. Oct. 15, 1861. 

5. James W., b. Aug. 8, 1861, d. Oct. 21, 1861. 

6. Emma Rachel (98), b. Sept. 15, 1862 

7. Ella Frances, b. June 9, 1865. 

8. Duane Dewey, b. Aug.7, 1867. On the homestead. 

98. Rowell, Atlanta, Ga. 

Emma Rachel Wheat ( 97-6 ), educated at D. L I., mar- 
ried, Apr. 2, 1890, Arthur W. Rowell, b. July 3, 1866, son of 
Chas. L. Rowell of Franklin, N. Y. He was educated at 
D. L- I., and the Oswego (N. Y.) State Normal School. He 
is now principal of the Normal Department of Clark Univer- 
sity at South Atlanta, Ga. 

1. Mahlon Wheat, b. March 2, 189 1. 

2. Mary Avis, b. Jan. 3, 1893. 

3. Glen Leon, b. April 16, 1895. 

4. Edwin Clark, b. Aug. 8, 1901. 

99- Wheat, Redlands, Cal. 
Doctor James Madison Wheat (82-5), physician, edu- 
cated at D. L. L, and at the Medical Colleges at Geneva, 
N. Y. and at Albany, N. Y. ; married, June 10, 1862, Almira 
Electa Foote, b. Aug. 31, 1836, daughter of Ephraim Foote 



Wheat of Redlands. 83 

of Clinton, N. Y.; removed 1856 to Lenora, Minn., where he 
practiced; was a member of the Minn. Assembly two terms 
and of the Senate i877-'86 ; removed 1887 to Redlands, Cal. 

1. Ida May, b. July 2, 1865. 

2. James Foote (100), b. Dec. 3, 1871. 

100. Wheat, Redlands, Cal. 

James Foote Wheat (99-2 ), life insurance; graduated from 
Woodbury Business College, Los Angeles ; resides at Red- 
lands ; married, Aug. 20, 1S96, Amelia Gertrude Hasten, b. 
at Brazil, Ind., June 14, 1876, daughter of Benj. F. Masten 
and Amelia Wright. 

1. Mildred Masten, b. Jan. 29, 1898. 

2. Marjorie Elizabeth, b. May 17, 1900. 

101. Reynolds, Franklin, N. Y. 

Mary Amanda Wheat (82-7 ), poet and artist, was edu- 
cated at D. L. I. and at Troy Female Seminary ; taught art at 
Franklin, and after her marriage contributed many poems to 
the newspapers published by her husband ; was an invalid 
during the later years of her life. On her sixtieth birthday 
she wrote 

" Three Score." 

A spray of autumn leaves, some withered flowers, 
Hair turned to silver, sorrowful hours, 

A memory of music, songster flown, 

A sky serenely fair, sunlight gone ; 
Hopes bright and golden, forever fled, 
Friends fondly cherished, asleep with the dead ; 

A barque tossed and riven, nearing the shore, 

Is this what it is to be three-score ? 

Loving heart and tender, in the furnace tried, 
Made like finest silver, cleansed and purified; 

Not earth's golden treasures, but, from priceless ore 

Of gentle deeds and words and thoughts a precious store ; 
Wisdom gained by failure, strength from weakness brought, 
A victory bravely won, a deadly battle fought, 

Glimpses fair and glorious of the " other shore," 

This is what it is to be three-score. 



84 Wheat Genealogy. 

She married, Jan. 24, 1872, Captain George W. Reynolds, 

journalist, a widower, born Jan. 31, 1818, d. Oct. 23, 1895, 
son of Hosea Reynolds and Elizabeth Fuller, daughter of 
Capt. Benj. Fuller of the Revolutionary Army. He was self- 
educated but of such attainments that Hamilton College gave 
him the degree A. B. 1856. The same year he founded " The 
Visitor," the first newspaper printed in Franklin, and made 
it what Horace Greeley called "an A 1 paper." He was post- 
master and kept the village bookstore. He was a pioneer 
abolitionist, and was the second man in Franklin to enlist for 
the Civil War ; was Captain of Co. K, 144th Regt. N. Y. 
Volunteers. After the War he made several changes of resi- 
dence, but lived for many years in Oneonta, N. Y., being 
postmaster, publisher of the Oneonta Herald, and later 
founder of the Oneonta Press ; edited the News Letter at 
Exeter, N. II., published the Melrose (Mass.) Journal five 
years ; published the Clinton (Mass ) Times ; returned to 
Oneonta and founded The Spy, which he published until fail- 
ing health forced him to retire. " Always in advance of his 
times, he was always receiving hard knocks from those who a 
few years later thought so too. ' ' 

102. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 

William Wheat (81-2), farmer and justice of the peace, 
popularly called "Squire" Wheat, was about thirteen years 
of age when he removed with his grandfather Bolles to Frank- 
lin, N. Y. With only the limited school privileges of the 
period, and with no inheritance except good health and the 
high moral tone of his ancestors, he developed a superior 
manhood. While a young man he worked for wages as a 
farm hand. His habits and associates were the best. His 
townsmen twice elected him justice of the peace, in which 
capacity he served from 1829 to 1837. 

He bought and cleared a farm on Roaring Brook, two miles 
south of Treadwell village, on which he and his worthy com- 
panion lived and reared their family. He married, Jan. 17, 
1822, Altamira Wolcott, b. Aug. 27, 1802, d. Sept. 27, 1871, 




WM. WHEAT (102) 



Wheat of Treadwell. 85 

daughter of Thomas and Margery (Boyd) Wolcott from West 
Springfield, Mass., to Treadwell (then Croton) 1814. Mr. 
and Mrs. Wheat were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and were active promoters of education, temperance, 
and practical Christianity. 

1 Thomas J. (103), b. Nov. 8, 1822, d. Feb. 21, 1891. 

2 - } Twin sons, b Sept. 10, 1824, d. in infancy. 

4 Susan Maria (105), b Jan 8,1826. 

5. William Bolles (no), b. March 9, 1828. 

6. Francis M. (115), b Feb x 4> 1830. 

7. Charles Lawrence (116), b. Aug. 18, 1840, d. March 

15, 1864. 

103. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
Thomas J. Wheat (102-1), merchant, firm of Prime & 
Wheat ; after the death of Mr. Prime continued the business 
for several years alone ; married, Mar. 22, 1848, Betsey Tup= 
per, b. Dec. 6, 1826, daughter of Elijah and Charlotte (Taft) 
Tupper. Mrs Wheat resides with her daughter, Mrs. Thomp- 
son. 

1. Alta Genevieve (104), b March 20, 1864. 

2. Erne E. , b. Feb 6, 1866, d March 26, 1875. 

104. Thompson, Oneonta, N. Y. 

Alta Genevieve Wheat ( 103-1 ), for several years a teacher, 
married, Feb. 27, 1894, Richard Thompson, Jr., farmer, b. 
March 2, 1852, son of Richard and Grace (Davidson) Thomp- 
son of West Delhi, N. Y. 

1. William Wheat, b. March 21, 1895. 

105. Smith, Charles City, Iowa. 

Susan Maria Wheat ( 102-4 ) married, April 4, 1850, 
Doctor Joel Washington Smith, b. July 23, 1824, d. June 6, 
1897, son of Silas and Lydia (Gillett) Smith of Franklin, N.Y. 
Dr. Smith's father was a son of Darius, son of John, son 
of Thomas Smith, who, tradition says, came from Haverhill, 
Mass., to West Springfield, Mass., and whose wife was Aba- 



86 Wheat Genealogy 

gail Austin of Northampton, Mass., descended from a Christian 
Jew family. 

Dr. Smith was born in a log house on a new farm cleared 
from the virgin forest ; attended district school and D. L,. I. ; 
taught in Connecticut and in New York state, thereby earn- 
ing enough money to pay his way through Yale College, from 
which he received his degree in 1850 ; studied medicine in 
New York and Chicago ; practiced in Davenport and Croton, 
N. Y. ; removed, 1857, to Charles City, Iowa, where he 
practiced until his death. 

He was a member of the American Medical Association ; 
of the Iowa State Medical Society, being vice-president in 
1872 ; of the Cedar Valley Medical Society, president in 1873; 
of the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, 1876, and 
Washington, 1887 ; of the American Public Health Associa- 
tion ; of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science ; and of the Iowa State Horticultural Society. He 
was president of the school board of Charles City several 
years, postmaster of Charles City for nine years from 1861, 
and state weather reporter from 1889 until his death. 

"Asa pioneer surgeon he was quick to improvise means to 
accomplish the best results and performed many new and 
delicate operations, usually attempted only by city specialists. 
Long before sanitary science was popular as it now is, he 
labored in that field, believing that prevention of disease was 
as important as the cure of it. He constantly preached this 
gospel of good and correct living, quite often to his cost, say- 
ing that he would rather do right and be right than be 
popular." 

Mrs. Smith resides at her home in Charles City. 

1. Irving Wheat (106), b. March 1, 1851, d. Oct. 29,1895. 

2. Ida Elisabeth (107), b. April 16, 1853. 

3. Alta Maria, b. July 8, 1855, <*• Sept. 19, 1859. 

4. William Thomas (108), b. Nov. 3, 1864. 

5. Charles Francis (109), b. Nov. 3, 1864. 

6. Fred Edmund, b. Aug. 18, 1866, graduate of 

the Iowa State University ; in Chicago with the 
Aermotor Company (107). 



Smith of Charlks City. 87 

106. Smith, Charles City, Iowa. 
Doctor Irving Wheat Smith ( 105-1 ) graduated B. S., 1872, 
from Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
Arts and M. D. 1875. from Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, and later took special professional studies at 
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and at Johns-Hopkins Uni- 
versity ; practiced at Charles City, Iowa ; was government 
physician at the Indian Agency, Fort Sill, Indian Ty., 1878-9 ; 
was professor of Histology and Pathology in the Iowa State 
College at Ames, 1894-5. 

He married at Philadelphia, June 21, 1876, Sallie Stalker, 
b Dec. 24, 1 85 1, daughter of George Stalker and Hannah 
Millikan of Richland, Iowa, of Quaker parentage. (The 
Stalkers left Randolph Co., N. C, in early life to get out of 
a slave state). She graduated 1873 with the degree B. S. 
from the Iowa State Agricultural College, and took two 
courses of lectures at the Woman's Medical College, Phila- 
delphia. For a while after her husband's death she was pre- 
ceptress of the Girls' Department of the State Agricultural 
College ; is now (1901) traveling in the Orient ; expects to 
return to the U. S. in the fall. 

Mr. Smith saw ten of his progenitors— two parents, four 
grandparents, and four great-grandparents, including Capt. 
Wm. Wheat (81) and Margery (Boyd) W T olcott (102). His 
health failing in the spring of 1895, he gave up work and 
went to Cottonwood, Cal., for rest, where he died Oct. 29. 
All the business houses of Charles City closed on the after- 
noon of the funeral. The faculty of the State College at 
Ames adopted memorial resolutions in which they said : "He 
was a man of strong character, sterling worth, well-founded 
opinions, and one whose influence was invariably wielded for 
the right ; a man whose friends equalled his circle of acquaint- 
ances.''' Rev. Mr. Noble in the funeral sermon said: "He 
was a man of superior integrity, whose outward life corre- 
sponded, as in few men, to the inward man. True in word 
and act, as very few are true Such a life is complete 



88 Wheat Genealogy. 

though its earthly course was brokeu off too soon for our 
hopes. Such a work is finished, although we had prayed 
that it might go on for many years more.' 1 

i. Gertrude, b. Aug. 12, 1877, d. Oct. 15, 1878. 

2. Hannah Agnes, b. Jan. 21, 1880, d. Jan. 19, 1896. 

107. Noyes, Chicago, III. 

Ida Elisabeth Smith ( 105-2 ) graduated 1874 from Iowa 
State Agricultural College ; married, May 24, 1877, La Verne 
W. Noyes, b. Jan. 7, 1849, inventor and manufacturer, son of 
Leonard R. Noyes (farmer) and Jane Jessnp, from Cayuga 
Co., N. Y. to Iowa. Mr. Noyes graduated from the Iowa 
State Agricultural College ; began business by inventing and 
manufacturing tools and farm implements at Batavia, 111. ; 
invented the Noyes' dictionary holder ; rem to Chicago and 
is manufacturer of the Aermotor ; has taken out about a hun- 
dred patents. The Aermotor plant occupies four acres in a 
busy part of Chicago, employs 700 hands, has its agents on 
every continent, and branch offices in many cities. 

Mrs. Noyes is an amateur artist of considerable distinction, 
has visited Europe several times for the study of art and 
languages ; speaks fluently French, German and Spanish. 

108. Smith, Charles City, Iowa. 

William Thomas Smith (105-4 ), photographer and teacher 
of music ; married, June 30, 1898, Lura B. Decker, b. Apr. 
13, 1878, daughter of John Decker and Flora Washburne of 
Osage. 

1. Marion Lucile, b Nov. 9, 1899, 

109. Smith, Kansas City, Kansas. 
Charles Francis Smith ( 105-5 ) pharmacist ; graduated 
from the Chicago College of Pharmacy ; married, March 18, 
1891, Carrie J. Walker, b. Dec. 14, 1868, daughter of Henry 
Olin Walker and Cornelia K. White of Shell Rock, Iowa. 

no. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
William Bolles Wheat ( 102-5 ), farmer ; married, March 
12, 1851, Eliza Richmond, b. Oct. 17, 1826, daughter of John 



Wheat of Treadweee. 89 

Richmond and Eunice Billings. (Mr. R., whose name before 
being Americanized was Ritsman or Ritzmann, was born Oct. 
1787 at Schaffhausen, Switzerland ; was drafted into Napo- 
leon Bonaparte's army at the age of 17, and fought under 
Napoleon in the Wars with Spain and Portugal ; was taken 
prisoner by the British and retained for two years, then 
enlisted in the English army and drilled two years at Malta ; 
when the War of 181 2 broke out he was sent to Canada and 
was at the Battle of Plattsburg ; at the close of the war he 
deserted and went to N. Y. state, finally settling at Middle- 
burg, Scho. Co., where he married Eunice, daughter of Capt. 
Erastus Billings from Enfield, Conn.; later rem. to Franklin, 
N. Y.) 

Mr. and Mrs. Wheat resided on the Squire Wheat home- 
stead until 1900, now live in Treadwell village ; are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and enjoy the esteem and 
confidence of the community. 

1. Howard Richmond (in), b. July 24, 1852. 

2. John Frank (113), b. Aug. 10, 1856. 

3. Julia Augusta (114) b. July 27, i860. 



in. Wheat, Treadweee, N. Y. 

Howard Richmond Wheat (110-1), farmer, graduated 
1874 from D. L. I., taught school several terms, now lives on 
the homestead two miles south of Treadwell. He married, 
Sept. 12, 1876, Annie Rebecca Webb, b. Nov. 7, 1855, 
daughter of Geo. Wm. Webb and Mary Esther Wood of 
Northfield, N. Y. (Mr. Webb was born at Stamford, Conn., 
son of James, son of Ebenezer, son of Epenetus, son of Sergt. 
Epenetus Webb, a Conn, soldier in the Revolutionary War. 
Mrs. G. W. Webb's mother, Elsey (Hoyt) Wood, was a 
daughter of Ebenezer Hoyt, a Conn, soldier in the Revolution.) 

1. Edwin Webb (112), b. Sept. 8, 1877. 

2. Lewis Chase, b. Aug. 5, 1881. 

3. Evelyn Louise, b. July 13, 1888. 



90 Wheat Genealogy. 

ii2. Wheat, Treadweee, N. Y. 
Edwin Webb Wheat ( iii-i ), graduated 1894 from D. L,. I., 

1900 at Albany (N. Y.) Business College; taught district 
school three years ; from May, 1900 to May, 1903, was a 
bookkeeper in Steam Engineering Dept. at U. S. Navy Yard, 
Brooklyn. He married, Feb. 12, 1903, flartha Eliza Waring, 
b. Feb. 12, 1882, daughter of Charles Hiram Waring and 
Martha Ells Strong of Woodford, Del. Co., N. Y., graduated 
1899 at Binghamton (N. Y.) School of Business, and has been 
a stenographer in Binghamton and New York City. 

113- Wheat, Treadwele, N. Y. 
John Frank Wheat ( 110-2 ), farmer and merchant, edu- 
cated at D. L. I.; married, Oct. 8, 1879, Ella S. Robinson, 
b. Dec. 1, 1859, daughter of James Robinson and Sally Cook 
of Treadwell. 

1. Ethel Clare, b. Jan. 27, 1889. 

2. Cora Marion, b. March 29, 1896. 

114. Bourn, Treadwele, N. Y. 

Julia Augusta Wheat ( 110-3 ), attended D. L. I.; mar- 
ried, Oct. 12, 1882, Orion Reid Bourn, b. Jan. 19, 1861, son 
of M. Reid Bourn and Emily Diefendorf of Treadwell. 6. R. 
Bourn was a farmer until Feb. 1898 ; since then has been a 
whip-dealer. 

1. Nellie Julia, b. Dec. 28, 1887. 

2. Elmer Wheat, b. Aug. 21, 1889. 

115- Wheat, Taleapoosa, Ga. 

Francis M. Wheat (102-6), farmer; married, Jan. 10, 
1854, Lydia E. Richmond, b. Jan. 17, 1836, d. Feb. 1, 1890, 
daughter of John and Eunice Richmond (no), rem. 1856 to 
Charles City, Iowa. Owing to failing health they spent the 
winters of i888-'9 an d i889-'90 at Hammond, La., wherein 
Feb. Mrs. Wheat died, and was buried in the Episcopal ceme- 
tery under the shadow of Grace Memorial Church. Mr. 
Wheat lives at Tallapoosa. 



Wheat of Treadwell. 9 1 

116. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 

Charles Lawrence Wheal ( 102 7 ), married, Aug. 21, 1862, 
Mary P. Tread well, b. Jan. 6, 1844, daughter of Hartson S. 
Treadwell (bro. of Chas. L. Treadwell, 86) and Esther 
Hubbell of Treadwell. He enlisted in the 8th N. Y. Battery 
and died at Ft. Schuyler 1864. 

1. Morton Ellsworth (117), b.- Dec. 29, 1863. 

117- Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 

Morton Ellsworth Wheat ( 116-1 ), carpenter, married Oct. 
24, 1888, Minnie F. Jackson, b. Dec. 20, 1868, daughter of 
Lucius Jackson (son of Richard) and Hannah Farrington. 

1. Charles Iy., b. Nov. 25, 1890. 

I SSi } twins > b. Oct. 20 . i8 93 . 

118. Sears, Maquoketa, Iowa. 

Maria Wheat (81-3), married, June 12, 1827, David 
Sears, farmer, b. July 17, 1803, d. April 15, 1870, son of 
Benj. Sears and Ann Bigelow of Meredith, N. Y. They 
removed 1832 to Kerjera, Pa., 1839 to Covington, Ky., 1847 
to Maquoketa, Iowa. 

1. Susan M., b. May 3, 1830, res. Maquoketa. 

2 * £r?i rgeR ;' a r b. Aug. 7, 1832, res. Maquoketa. 

3. William (119),) & " ° ' ^ 

4. Benjamin C. (124), b. Nov. 22, 1834. 

5. Sylvester, b. June 23, 1837, d. Nov. 16, 1838. 

6. Mary Ann, b. Dec. 27, 1839, d. May 8, 1841. 

119. Sears, Maquoketa, Iowa. 

William Sears ( 118-3 ) f farmer and fruit-grower, Iowa and 
Florida ; married at New Haven, Vt., Oct. 11, 1854, flaria 
Cowles, b. June 27, 1833, daughter of Martin Cowles and 
Rachel Andrews of Brattleboro, Vt. 

1. Sendol B. (120), b. Nov. 3, 1855. 

2. Martha Eva (121), b. Jan. 8, 1858. 

3. Carrie Mabel (122), b. Nov. 20, 1859. 

4. Effie (123), b. Dec. 29, 1861. 



9 2 Wheat Genealogy. 

120. Sears, Maquoketa, Iowa. 
Sendol B. Sears ( 119-1 ), married, Nov. 15, 1877, Ella Hay 

Ledoit, b. Jan. 17, 1856, daughter of James H. Ledoit and 
Phoebe Whitney from New York to Iowa 1 850. 

1. Frank Vernette, b. Aug. 3, 1878. 

2. Lena Bernice, b. Oct. 17, 1882. 

3. Wilbur L., b. Jan. 23, 1888. 

4. Howard William, b. April 23, 1890. 

121A. Thompson, Bridgewater, N. Y. 
Martha Eva Sears ( 119-2 ), married first, May 29th, 1878, 
E. S. Thompson who died Sept. 1880. Their son lives with 
his mother, Mrs. Hackley. 

1. Bruce E., b. March 24, 1879. 

121B. Hackley, Bridgewater, N. Y. 
Mrs. Martha E. Thompson ( 121A), married second at the 
South, Dec. 23, 1884, H. Carl Hackley, farmer, b. Feb. 26, 
1853, son of Salinus H. Hackley and Martha E. Boynton of 
Bridgewater, N. Y. ; went south 1878, and lived near Selma, 
Ala.; returned to Oneida Co., N. Y., 1894. 

2. Homer Sears, b. Oct. 21, 1885. 
3 Stella A., b. Dec. 19, 1887. 

122. Fischer, Maquoketa, Iowa. 
Carrie Mabel Sears (119-3) married, Nov. 16, 1880, Fred 
Fischer, b. in Prussia, Jan. 15, 1857, son of Geo. F. Fischer 
and Louise Trunper of Rauschenburg, Prussia. He came to 
America 1873 ; has held the office of county auditor. 

1. Harry C, b. Dec. 10, 1881. 

2. Lena De Ve, b. Nov. 13, 1884. 

3. Opal Bernice, b. March 20, 1889. 

123. Hoffman, Savanna, III. 
Effie Sears (119-4) married, Jan. 24, 1883, Harry Hoffman, 

machinist, b. Jan. 16, 1857, son of Theodore Hoffman and 
and Maria Morningstar from St. Joseph, Mo., to Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa, 1863. He removed to Oxford Junction, Iowa, 1881, 
and later to his present residence in Carroll Co., 111. 




SOLOMON WHEAT (126) 



Sears of Maquoketa. 93 

124. Sears, Maquoketa, Iowa. 
Benjamin C. Sears ( 118-4 ), mechanic, married, Oct. 27, 
1859, Rhoda F. Blanchard, b. Sept. 2, 1840, daughter of 
Chas. H. Blanchard and Jane Simons from Plainfield, N. H., 
to Iowa 1850. 

1. Silas Edwin, b. July 30, i860, d. Aug. 23, 1862. 

2. Frank C. (125), b. Sept. 20, 1862. 

3. George E., b. July 9, 1865. Fruit-grower and 

mechanic, Narrows, Brevard Co., Fla. 

125. Sears. 

Frank C. Sears ( 124-2), journalist, married, Aug. 10, 1892, 
Leonora V. Decker, daughter of Leonard Decker and Nelly 
Reynolds of Maquoketa, Iowa, formerly of Watertown, N. Y. 

1. Azuba Antoinette, b. July 18, 1895. 

126. Wheat, Sidney, N. Y. 
Solomon Wheat (8i- 5 ), farmer, born in Connecticut, came 
with his parents to Franklin when seven years old, married, 
June 27, 1830, Ruth n. Griswold, b. Nov. 1, 1810, d. Nov. 
20, 1 87 1, daughter of Simeon P. Griswold of Masonville, 
N. Y. They lived on a farm in the town of Franklin until 
1844 when they removed to Sidney. 

1. Edwin Ruthvan (127), b. Aug. 23,1831^. Dec. 27,1901. 

2. Oscar F. (132), b. April 4, 1833, d. Jan. 19,1898. 

3. Louise Emily (133), b. Aug. 10, 1834. 

4. Adelia H. (135), b.Aug 26,1837^. April 27,1893. 

5. Almiron Griswold (i36),b. July 9, 1840. 

6. Eliza O. (138), b. Nov. 20, 1843. 

7. George A. (141), b. June 20, 1846, deceased. 

127. Wheat, Sidney Center, N. Y. 
Edwin Ruthvan Wheat, Sr. (126-1 ), carpenter, married, 
Nov. 17, 1859, Sarah Elisabeth Mabie, b. June 5, 1841, 
daughter of Chas. Leet Mabie and Lucy Ann Riggs of 
Meredith, N. Y. 

1. Lucy Ruth (128), b. Aug. 19, 1861. 

2. Mary Louisa (129), b. Sept. 21, 1862, 



94 Wheat Genealogy. 

3. Edwin Ruthvan, Jr. (130), b. Aug. 31, 1864. 

4. Charles Almiron (131), b. March 8, 1868. 

5. Grace Mabie, b. Oct. 21, 1877. 

128. Amner, Sidney Center, N. Y. 

Lucy Ruth Wheat ( 127-1) married, Nov. 17, 1890, Nelson 

Delos Amner, farmer, b. at Sidney Center, Feb. 25, 1862, son 
of Isaac Amner formerly of England and Harriet A. Cleve- 
land of Kortright, N. Y. 

1. Charles Nelson, b. Nov. 23, 1892. 

2. Arthur Delos, b. April 3, 1894. 

3. Ruth Elisabeth, b. Aug. 7, 1895. 

4. Floyd Dewey, b. March 8, 1900. 

129. Jenkins, Sidney Center, N. Y. 

flary Louisa Wheat, (127-2) teacher from 1879 to 1894, 
married, April 26, 1894, William Henry Jenkins, market 
gardener, fruit-grower, and correspondent for agricultural 
papers, b. April 21, i860, son of Smith Jenkins and Prissilla 
Faulkner of Sidney Center. 

1. Edith Faulkner, b. Feb. 14, 1895. 

2. Erwin Wheat, b. Nov. 26, 1896. 

130. Wheat, Sidney Center, N. Y. 

Edwin Ruthvan Wheat, Jr. (127-3 ), contractor and builder, 
married, Feb. 24, 1892, Nora E. Finch, b. Sept. 5, 1870, 
daughter of Henry Finch and Mary Jane Carroll of Sidney 
Center. 

1. Sarah Audrey, b. Oct. 22, 1895. 

2. Margery Emeline, b. Oct. 2, 1897. 

131. Wheat, Youngstown, Ohio. 
Charles Almiron Wheat (127-4 ), carpenter; married first, 
Dec. 14, 1889, Carrie M. Crawford, b. March 26, 1868, d. 
May 5, 1893, daughter of James Nelson Crawford and Johanna 
Owens of Cannonsville, N. Y. For nearly a year following 
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. W. lived at Torrington, Conn., 
where Mr. W. and his brother Edwin worked at their trade ; 



Wheat of Sidney. 95 

then removed to Sidney Center, N. Y. Mr. W. is now a 
carpenter at Youngstown, Ohio. The children are living with 
relatives of their mother. 

Mr. Wheat married second, Jan. 14, 1903, Ella Sibbet of 
Youngstown, Ohio. 

1. Murray Crawford, b. April 24, 1891. 

2. Ruth Leona, b. Feb. 4, 1893. 

132. Wheat, Sidney Center, N. Y. 

Oscar F. Wheat ( 126-2 ), farmer, married, Jan. 31, 1861, 
Louisa De Forest, b. Jan. 29, 1828, d. Dec. 6, 1900, daughter 
of Deacon Hiram De Forest and Aurilla Jessup of Northfield. 
They lived on their farm at Northfield until 1876, when they 
removed to Sidney Center where they remained until their 
death. They had no children. 

133- Whitman, Masonville, N. Y. 

Louisa Emily Wheat ( 126-3 ), married, Jan. 15, 1863, 
Roswell Brown Whitman, farmer, b. March 2, 1834. 
1 Elizabeth P. (134), b. Jan. 26, 1864. 

2. William Rowland, b. Aug. 21, 1866. 

3. Lillian Ruth, b. March 13, 1869. 

4. Roswell Brown, Jr., b. Jan. 5, 1871, attending Colgate 

University; intends to enter the ministry. 

5. AlmironG., b Oct. 7, 1874. 

6. Mary Edith, b. Aug. 4, 1876. 

134- OSBORN, TREADWELL, N. Y. 

Elizabeth P. Whitman ( 133-1 ), graduated 1887 from 
Cortland (N. Y.) Normal School, and taught until her mar- 
riage ; m. Oct. 18, 1893, Virgil D. Osborn, farmer, b. Dec. 
11, 1856, d. Dec. 22, 1897, son of Ransom Osborn and Mary 
E. Drum of Treadwell. Mrs. Elizabeth Osborn is now one 
of the faculty of D. L. I. at Franklin, N. Y. 



96 Wheat Genealogy. 

i35» Forsyth, Masonviele, N. Y. 

Adelia H. Wheat ( 126-4 ), married, Sept. 30, 1868, Frank 

Forsyth, farmer, b. Jan. 6, 1843, d. April 17, 1896, son of 
John Forsyth and Jessie Middleton from Scotland. 
1. Mina Adelia, b. Oct. 31, 1874, d. April 13, 1896. 

136. Wheat, Sidney Center, N, Y. 

Aim iron Griswold Wheat ( 126-5 ), farmer on the home- 
stead ; was a soldier during the Civil War in Co. D, 144th 
Reg't N. Y. Volunteers; married first, Sept. 30, 1868, Emily 
C. Davis, b. Jan. 5, 1845, d. July 10, 1871, daughter of Stil- 
man Davis and Betsey Whitman of Masonville. He married 
second, Jan. 20, 1874, Mary J. Neff, b. Dec. 11, 1850, daugh- 
ter of Chester W. Neff of Bainbridge, N. Y., and Wealtha J. 
Whitman. The family are all members of the Baptist Church 
at Sidney Center. Mr. W. being deacon. 

1. Emilie Loverua (137), b. March 9, 1875. 

2. Mary Jane, b. April 3, 1877. 

3. Oscar Devilo, b. Oct. 28, 1879. 

4. Wealtha Liona, b. May 1, 1882. 

137- Frankein, Oakland, Cal. 

Emilie Loverna Wheat ( 136-1 ), married, Aug. 6, 1902, 
Will Cook Franklin, b. at Georgetown, N. Y., March 17, 
1879, son of Eugene Franklin and Ida Elmira Hill. They 
reside at Oakland, California. 

138. Forsyth, Beeden, N. Y. 

Eliza O. Wheat ( 126-6 ), married, Nov. 9, 1870, James fl. 

Forsyth, farmer, son of John Forsyth and Jessie Middleton 
from Scotland. They reside near Belden, Broome Co . N. Y. 



I. 


Mary Adelia (139), 


b. Aug. 29, 1871. 


2. 


John Solomon, (140), 


b. Feb. 15, 1873. 


3 


Cora Elizabeth, 


b. July 23, 1875. 


4 


Jessie C, 


b. Sept. 14, 1878 


5- 


Frank J. 


b. June 12, 1884. 



Wheat of Sidney. 97 

i39« Morse, White Store, N. Y. 
flary Adelia Forsyth ( 138-1 ), married, Dec. 9, 1891, 
Merton A. Morse, farmer, b. Dec. 13, 1870, son of Arvin H. 
Morse and Emma J. Barber. They live in Chenango Co. 

140. Forsyth, Belden, N. Y. 

John Solomon Forsyth ( 138-2 ), farmer, married, Jan. io, 
1900, flercia Yager, daughter of Loren and Hannah Yager of 
North Fen ton. 

141. Wheat, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

George A. Wheat ( 126-7 ), married, May 13, 1874, flary 
Antoinette Reed, b. Sept. 19, 1850, daughter of John le 
Grand Reed of Norwalk, Conn., and Matilda Tristram from 
Willenhall, Staff, Eng. 

1. Maud T., b. March 15, 1875; residence Brooklyn, N. Y. 

142. Wheat, Franklin, N. Y. 

Colonel Sylvester Wheat (81-6 ), farmer, born in Connec- 
ticut 1806, came to Franklin with his parents 181 1, enlisted 
in the state militia at the age of 17 and passed in seven years 
from the ranks to lieutenant, captain, and colonel of the 151st 
Regt. light infantry, held the latter office four years ; taught 
seven winter terms in district schools ; married, Nov. 7, 1834, 
Julia Haynard of Austerlitz, who died in 1836. They re- 
sided on Handsome Brook two miles from Franklin Village. 
In 1837 Col. W T heat married second, Martha Johnson, who 
died in 1851. He married third, 1854, Amy Drake, daughter 
of Abial Drake, Sr. and Fanny Maynard (sister of first wife 
Julia Maynard). 

1. Hardin (143) b. Nov. 1, 1835, d. April 4, 1876. 

2. Thompson H., b. Dec. 18,1837, d. Oct. 17, 1862. 

3. Floyd B. (148), b. June 9, 1839. 

4. Ellen Julia (152), b. Nov. 19, 1841. 

5. Morris Lambert (153), b. October 13, 1848. 

6. Emerson, ) , T ( 

7. Emily, } b. June 2, 1851, j d . l86o or l86l . 



98 Wheat GeneaeoCxY. 

143- Wheat, Paemyra, N. Y. 

Reverend Hardin Wheat (142-1 ), Baptist preacher at Pal- 
myra ; married, June 19, 1862, Eliza Ann Howes, b. May 

28, 1836, d. Feb. 16, 1886, daughter of Leonard Howes and 
Lucy Brigham of Madison, N. Y. 

1. Leonard Hardin (144), b. Aug. 20, 1865. 

2. Lena Eliza (145), b. Feb. 27, 1868. 

3. Mary Edna (146), b. June 15, 1870. 

4. Carrie Julia, b. Aug. 15, 1873, d. Feb. 2, 1891 

5. Helen Susan (147), b. April 16, 1876. 

144- Wheat, Newark, N. Y. 

Leonard Hardin Wheat ( 143-1 ), photographer, married, 
Oct. 22, 1895, Frances Peirson, daughter of George Peirson 
and Mary Wakeman. 

145- EvEEAND, FRANKEIN, N. Y. 

Lena Eliza Wheat ( 143-2 ) taught several years ; married, 
Oct. 20, 1896, George Terry Eveland, son of Joseph Eve- 
land and Josephine Liljeghren of Franklin. Mr. Eveland is 
junior member of the firm of Joseph Eveland & Son, pub- 
lishers of the Delaware County Dairyman. 

146. Fraie, Erie, Penn. 

Mary Edna Wheat ( 143-3 ) married, Aug. 22, 1899, Prof. 
Elmer George Frail, b. Sept. 17, 1862, son of Perry Frail 
and Julia Henniston of Franklin, N. Y. Mr. Frail graduated 
from D. L. I. 1884, and from the University of Rochester 
1888. He is now a teacher in the Erie High School. 

1. Richard Julius, b. July 25, 1900. 

147- MUETER, FRANKEIN, N. Y. 

Helen Susan Wheat (143-5 ), graduated 1897 from Oneonta 
(N. Y.) State Normal School, and taught from that time until 
her marriage. She married, Aug. 7, 1900, flonte Josiah 
riulter, b. March 13, 1873, son of Henry Multer and Mary 
Hollenbeck of South Worcester. Mr. Multer graduated from 



Wheat of Millville. 99 

Schenevus Academy 1891, and from Union College 1897; 
taught at Franklin 1897-8, and at Fabius, N. Y., 1 898-1 900 ; 
is now (1902) Principal of the Delaware Literary Institute. 



148. Wheat, Millville, N. J. 

Floyd B. Wheat (142-3 ), merchant, taught in Pa. and N. J. 

1 858- '62 ; enlisted in the 144th Reg't N. Y. Volunteers and 
served through the Civil War ; was in the march against 
Richmond under Gen. Dix, in the March to cut off Gen. Lee 
after Gettysburg ; in the R. R. disaster at Laurel Hill his 
skull was fractured ; soon after leaving the hospital he was 
appointed 2d lieut., Co. H, 39th Reg't U. S. Colored Troops, 
but went with the 144th to Fla. until April, 1864, when he 
received his commission in the 39th and joined the 9th Army 
Corps under Gen. Burnside and was in the battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, seige of Petersburg, the Mine or 
Crater, Hatcher's Run ; was in the futile expedition to Ft. 
Fisher ; again at Petersburg ; in the successful attack on 
Ft. Fisher, in the battles of Sugarloaf Hill, Wilmington, 
Goldsboro, Raleigh ; saw the surrender of Gen. Johnston's 
army ; resigned and reached home in August, 1865, almost, 
three years from the time of enlisting. 

He married, Sept. 20, 1865, Diana Potter, daughter of 
Wilbur Potter and Angeline Lines ; rem. to Millville 1868 
where he carried on a hardware store for twenty-five years. 
Has retired. 

1. Merton T. (149). b. July 7, 1866. 

2. Luella (150), b. May 6, 1871. 

3. Albert Floyd (151), b. Jan. 5, 1873. 

4. Ethel Flora, b. Jan. 15, 1881. 

5. Mabel, b. Feb. 16, 1883. 

149. Wheat, Glenside, Penn. 

ilerton Thompson Wheat ( 148-1 ) married, Jan. 17, 1895, 
flary E. Bomhoff, d. May 7, 1896, daughter of Harry and 
Mary Bomhoff of Millville, N. J. He married second, Feb. 

LofC. 



ioo Wheat Genealogy. 

22, 1899, Lauretta Young, b. May 4, 1869, daughter of 
Charles and Sarah S. Young of Camden, N. J. 

1. Maysie, b. May 4, 1896, d. June 7, 1897. 

2. Lauretta, b. June 3, 1901. 

150. Sheppard, Millviixe, N. J. 
Luella Wheat (148-2) married, Dec. 8, 1889, W. H. Seward 
Sheppard, b. March 14, 1866, son of Charles Sheppard and 
Margaret Shropshires of Haleyville, N. J. 

1. Reba, b. Feb. 12, 1891. 

2. Myrtle, b. Aug. 8, 1894. 

151- Wheat, Miixviixe, N. J. 
Albert Floyd Wheat (148-3 ), commercial traveler, married, 
June 14, 1894, Estella Madden, b. April 2, 1875, daughter 
of Martin Madden and Elizabeth Clark. 

1. Lillian Estella, b. May 27, 1895. 

2. Floyd Martin, b. April 11, 1897. 

3. Albert Leonard, b. Jan. 18, 1901. 

152. Smith, Delhi, N. Y. 

Ellen Julia Wheat (142-4), married, Dec. 17, 1862, Dr. 
George Cleveland Smith, son of E. Cleveland Smith and his 
second wife Abigail Wells of ' ' Cold Spring Farm ' ' near 
Delhi, on which were living in June, 1895 the Doctor's grand- 
father Peter Smith aged 100 yrs. 9 months, his father aged 
87, and his brother J. D. Smith, a prominent dairyman and 
writer on agriculture. The name Cleveland comes from the 
Doctor's grandmother, whose brother was Ex-President Cleve- 
land's grandfather. 

He was educated at the Delaware Academy at Delhi ; 
taught nine terms, studying medicine under direction of Dr. 
Fitch, and after the Civil War graduated from Jefferson 
Medical College. 

At the second call for troops in the Civil War he enlisted 
in Co. D, 144th Reg't N. Y. Volunteers, then at Hilton Head, 
S. C. He was first made company clerk, then serg't of the 



Wheat of Colfax. ioi 

Provost Marshal's Guard, having charge of receiving and for- 
warding troops, furnishing rations, etc., and during the winter 
of 1864 had charge of rebel prisoners held for retaliation for 
unsoldierly treatment of federal prisoners at Charleston. He 
declined a first lieutenant's commission in the 34th U. S. 
Colored Troops. 

After the War he was for ten years a partner with Floyd 
B. Wheat (148), the firm being dealers in hardware, etc., at 
Millville, N. J. He served one term there as City Superin- 
tendent of Schools ; removed to Philadelphia, studied the 
healing art at Jefferson Medical College, spending seven years 
in the city connected with the college and hospitals ; removed 
to Franklin, N. Y., and practiced four years ; rem. to Delhi 
1880 where he continues to practice. He is an active worker 
in the Baptist Church. 

1. Kdson Levere, d. aged 17 months. 

2. Alta, taught several years. 

3. Lillian M., d. July 18, 1894, aged 19. 

153. Wheat, Colfax, Iowa. 

Morris Lambert Wheat (142-5), lawyer and politician ; 
was admitted to the bar at Binghamton, N. Y., 1869 ; prac- 
ticed in Iowa and Nebraska ; was elected State Master Work- 
man of the Knights of Labor 1886 ; was General Worthy 
Foreman and Lecturer (K. of L.) 1 888-' 91 ; was an organizer 
of the People's Party and has been almost continually "on 
the stump " since 1891 (July '95). 

In 1872 he married Mary J. Booth, daughter of Wm. S. 
Booth and Sarah B. Curtis from Massachusetts. 

i54» Wood, Franklin, N. Y. 
Eliza Wheat (81-7 ), married, Sept. 2, 1831, Charles Jeffer- 
son Wood, farmer, b. at Newfield, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1804, d. 
at Franklin, Nov. 22, 1893, son °f John Wood from Ireland 
and Mary Sarles. They lived for fifty-two years on Hand- 
some Brook about two miles from Franklin village. After 
Mrs. Wood's death in 1883 the farm was exchanged for 
village property. 



102 Wheat Genealogy. 

i. Rufus Sylvester (155), b. Nov. 21, 1832. 

2. William Henry (158), b. March 8, 1834. 

3. Charles Jefferson, ■ b. March 4, 1837, d. Dec. 8, 1848. 

4. Mary Jane (160), b. Oct. 13, 1839. 

155. Wood, Franklin, N. Y. 
Rufus Sylvester Wood (154-1 ), farmer, educated at 
D. L. L, married, Sept. 16, 1855, Susan Harie flann, b. 

Aug. 9, 1832, daughter of Horace A. Mann of Franklin and 
Sophronia Fitch (dau. of Col. Silas Fitch, and sister of Rev. 
Silas Fitch, second principal of D. L. I.). Mr. and Mrs. Wood 
lived on the homestead until 1 884, when they removed to the 
village. 

1. Charles Irving (156), b. March 9, 1857. 

2. Kdson Stanley, b. Feb. 18, i860, d. Apr. 24, 1861. 

3. Carrie Josephine (157), b. Apr. 30, 1867. 

156. Wood, Logan, Iowa. 

Dr. Charles Irving Wood ( 155-1 ), physician and surgeon, 
graduated 1875 from D. L,. I.; studied medicine at the Uni- 
versity of New York and at Jefferson Medical College, 
receiving the degree of M. D. in 1880 ; was assistant surgeon 
Pennsylvania Hospital 1 880-1 881 ; removed to Iowa 1881, 
where he has since practiced ; has been Commissioner of 
Insanity twelve years, and county surgeon for the Chicago 
and N. W. Ry. He married, May 12, 1886, Florence May 
Bolter, daughter of Senator I* R. Bolter and Caroline Rhine- 
hart of Logan. 

157. Daniels, Franklin, N. Y. 

Carrie Josephine Wood (155-3), married, May 24, 1893, 
Frank Clinton Daniels, b. Aug. 22, 1866, son of Valson 
Daniels and Mary Eastman Wescott of Franklin. His grand- 
father, Ralph Daniels, came from Lebanon, Conn., by ox- 
team and cart before the year 1800. Mr. F. C. Daniels was 
ten years in the South and West ; returned in 1891 and is 
now an insurance agent in Franklin. 



Wood of Dakota City. 103 

158. Wood, Dakota City, Neb. 

William Henry Wood ( 154- 2 ), farmer, married, Oct. 23, 
1855, Sarah Jane Abell of Franklin, N. Y., b. April 3, 1837, 
daughter of Emory Stark Abell and Ruth Mills Northway ; 
rem. 1857 to Iowa and 1858 to Dakota City, Neb. Since then 
has lived in Franklin a part of the time. 

1. Charles Emory, b. Aug. 8, 1856, d. Sept. 25, 1857. 

2. Estella Dakota (159), b. Dec. 11, 1858. 

3. Jennie Fanella, b. Oct. 6, 1863, d. Aug. 2, 1865. 

4. George Franklin, b. April 7, 1867, d. Feb. 3, 1893, 

while a student at Union Theological Seminary, 
New York City. 

5. Frederick Abell, b. May 17, 1871 ; studied law at 

the University, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; is now a lawyer 
at Dakota City, Neb. 

159. White, Woodbine, Iowa. 

Estella Dakota Wood (158-2), married, Oct. 20, 1880, 
Lyman W. White, editor of the Woodbine Chronicle, b. at 
Franklin, N. Y. March 20, 1857, son of J- Randolph White 
and Elizabeth Bogie. 

1. John Wood, b. July 31, 1881. 

2. Annie Fanella, b. Nov. 5, 1890. 

3. Sarah Edna, b. Jan. 27, 1893. 

160. Dibble, Dakota City, Neb. 

Ilary Jane Wood ( 154-4 ) married, Jan. 22, i860, Daniel 

Colby Dibble, farmer and breeder of Hereford cattle, b. at 
Meredith, N. Y., March 5, 1833, son of Charles Dibble and 
Sally Louisa Benedict ; removed to Nebraska 1868. 

1. Wilson Colby (161), b. Aug. 2, 1863. 

2. Nellie Maria, b. Jan. 5, 1874; graduated 1898, 

from Leland Stanford Jr. University, Cal.; is now 
teacher in the Female Seminary at Walla Walla, 
Wash. 



104 Wheat Genealogy. 

161. Dibble, Palo Alto, Cal. 

Wilson Colby Dibble ( 160-1 ), newspaper correspondent ; 
attended Sioux City High School, and D. L. I., and entered 
Williams College, but after one term further attendance was 
prevented by a long illness. At the age of twenty-two he 
was elected Superintendent of Schools, Dakota Co., Neb., for 
two years ; was engaged in newspaper work in Sioux City 
three years ; was chairman of the Dem. Central Com. of Dak. 
Co., Neb., three terms ; and member of Dist. Cong. Com. one 
term. He married, Feb. 7, 1891, Gertrude Sharp of Spring- 
field, Ohio, b. 1858, daughter of John Sharp and Harriet 
Jordan. 

1. Carol Sharp Dibble, b. April 8, 1892. 

162. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
Cyrus Howell Wheat ( 81-8 ), cabinet maker, married, Feb. 
7, 1836, Amanda Rogers, b. April 6, 1817, d. March 27, 1900, 
daughter of Rufus Rogers and Polly Cunningham of Connecti- 
cut. He lived on the Bolles (81) homestead on Handsome 
Brook where he was born, until i860 when he removed to 
Croton (now Treadwell), taking with him his aged father, 
Captain Wm. Wheat. He now lives with his daughter, Mrs. 
Manzer Smith. 



I. 


Amos Watson, b. Aug. 12, 1839, d. July 9, 


1863, 




Soldier. 




2. 


Marion Eunice (163), b. June 19, 1841. 




3- 


Hartson L. (164), b. March 18, 1843. 




4- 


Porter Asbury (168), b March 24, 1845. 




5- 


Herbert L., b. Aug. 26, 1847, d. July 13, 


1867. 


6. 


Iveroy C, b. Jan. 22, 1849, d. Aug. 11, 


1864. 


7- 


Orton W. (172), b.'Jan. 30, 1852. 





163. Smith, West Meredith, N. Y. 
riarion Eunice Wheat (162-2) married, Jan. 1, 1863, 
Manzer C. Smith, farmer, b. Jan. 7, 1838, d. Jan. 10, 1903, 
son of David Smith and Louisa F. Gould. 

1. Herbert Leroy, b. Dec. 29, 1867, d. April 6, 1868. 

2. Emma L,ouesa, b. Sept. 25, 1879. 




CYRUS WHEAT (162) 



Wheat of Treadweel. 105 

164. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 

Hartson L. Wheat ( 162-3 ). farmer, married, Dec. 7, 1864, 
Francis Haria Knapp, b. Aug. 9, 1843, daughter of Alanson 
Knapp and Maria Drake. 

1. Nellie Ino (165), b. June 2, 1866. 

2. Frances Edna (166), b. Sept. 2, 1874. 

3. Hardin Harold (167), b. May 5, 1876. 

4. Millicent Marie, b. Aug. 29, 1879. 

165. Whitten, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Nellie Ino Wheat ( 164-1 ) married, Nov. 7, 1888, Arthur 
Sherburne Whitten, barber, b. i860, son of Andrew S. 
Whitten, and Julia A. Fish from Maine to Boston, to New 
Jersey, and later to Minnesota. He attended D. L. I.; went 
to Sioux City, Iowa, where he engaged in painting and 
decorating. After his marriage he remained in Sioux City, 
but left painting for the tonsorial art on account of his health; 
later rem. to Minn. 

1. Roland Arthur, b. Sept. 1, 1889. 

2. Harold Clayton, b. July 28, 1891. 

3. Clayton Delwin, b. Oct. 7, 1895. 

166. Bender, Treadwell, N. Y. 

Frances Edna Wheat ( 164-2 ), teacher for several years, 
married, Jan. 8, 1902, Frederick Ernest Bender, farmer, b. 
Feb. 8, 1874, at Laufren, Wurtemburg, Germany, son of 
Peter Carl Bender and Louise Sommer. 

167. Wheat, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Hardin Harold Wheat ( 164-3) married, Sept. 5, 1901, Alice 
Biddel Ayer, daughter of F. Wayland Ayer, pres. of Mer- 
chants' National Bank of Philadelphia. After their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs Wheat removed to Minneapolis. 

168. Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
Porter A. Wheat (162-4 ) teacher and mechanic; married 
Dec. 22, 1866, Lydia Maria Southworth, b. July 24, 1847, 



106 Wheat Genealogy. 

daughter of Rev. Nelson Southworth and Jemima Finch of 
Masonville, N. Y. He taught for sixteen years, and after- 
wards was a manufacturer of butter firkins. He was Justice 
of the Peace sixteen years ; and was elected Justice of the 
Sessions in 1895, and was appointed postmaster in 1885, and 
in 1895. 

1. Cora Marion (169), b. Oct. 10, 1867. 

2. Homer E., b. April 27, 1870. 

3. Bertha Lydia (170), b. Aug. 31, 1871. 

4. Horatio Seymour, b. April 6, 1876. 

5. Roscoe Conklin (171), b. Nov. 10, 1880, 

169. Evans, Leonta, N. Y. 
Cora flarion Wheat (168-1 ) married, Mar. 2, 1892, Le Roy 
Evans, farmer, b. Dec. 9, 1867, son of Ezra Evans and Susan 
Stewart of Treadwell. 

1. Stewart Wheat, b. June 30, 1894. 

2. Blanche M., b. Sept. 1, 1895. 

3. Hazel J., b. Feb. 1, 1898. 

170. Whitney, Pittsburg, Penn. 

Bertha Lydia Wheat ( 168-3 ) graduated 1891 from the 
Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y., and taught 
several years; married John Howard Whitney of Downsville, 
N. Y. 

1. Howard Erwin. 

17' • Wheat, Treadwell, N. Y. 
Roscoe Conkling Wheat ( 168-5 ) married, Nov. 27, 1902, 
Laura E. Fleming, daughter of Manning Fleming and Emma 
Gillett of Franklin, N. Y. 

172. Wheat, Franklin, N. Y. 
Orton W. Wheat ( 162-7 ), carpenter, married, Nov. 3, 
1881, Betsey A. Palmer, b. July 12, 1857, daughter of John 
Palmer and Parmelia Tuttle of Andes, N Y. 

1. Eeo C , b. March 28, 1884 

2. Herbert O., b. Oct. 12, 1885. 

3. Tracy Elmer, b. Sept. 30, 1892, d. Jan. 26, 1893. 

4. Merton, b. Sept. 5, 1893. 



Wheat of California. 107 

i73- Wheat, California. 

Edward Hatson Wheat ( 8i- 9 ), carpenter, married, Oct. 
1, 1840, Albina Hawley, b 1822, at South Franklin, N. Y. 
They lived at S. Franklin, until 1853 when Mr. Wheat went 
to California, and some years later Mrs Wheat and daughter 
went to Pennsylvania. Mr. Wheat sent money to Mr. 
Reuben Parish to bring his family to California, but his wife 
refused to go. His daughter determined to go as soon as she 
became of age, but died in her nineteenth year. Nothing has 
been heard of the mother since. The postmaster at Tread- 
well (then Croton) received a letter from California in 1876 
announcing the death of Edward Wheat, aged 60. 

1. Selen Berenice, b. 1843, d. 1862. 

2. Edward Eralburn, b. 1848, d. 1855. 



io8 Wheat Genealogy. 



Continued from page 6. 

The dates of birth and of death, when known, are placed immediately 
after the name of each person at the first entry of the name, and are not 
repeated in any following entry of the same name. 

Instead of repeating anything once stated of a person the number of 
the paragraph in which the statement is entered is placed in parenthesis 
after his name. By following these key numbers one may trace a lineage 
without once referring to the index, and as rapidly as he can turn the 
leaves. 

DATES — OLD STYLE AND NEW STYLE. 

For more than a century after the settlement of Boston New Year's 
Day was the twenty-fifth of March ; March was the first month, 
December the tenth, and February the twelfth. This was the Old Style. 

At the same time the Latin countries used the New Style with January 
for the first month. Many people in the colonies combined both styles 
by writing all dates between Dec. 31 and March 25 with a hyphen thus, 
Feb. 9, 1666-7 ; i. e. Feb. 9, 1666 in English countries, and Feb. 19, 1667 
in Latin countries, for the old style was ten days behind the new from 
1601 to 1700, and eleven days behind from 1701 to 1752. 



INDEX 

Numbers refer to the paragraph 



WHEAT 



Aaron 70, 80, 80C 

Abigail 71, 75 

Adelia H 126, 135 

Addison S 82, 97 

A. F., Dr 61 

Agnes 21, 48 

Albert F 148, 151 

Albert L 151 

Albina 173 

Alfred J 48 

Alice 54 

Alice B 167 

Alice C 97 

Alice E 88 

Alice H 89 

Alice N 46 

Alicia 23 

Almira E 99 

Almiron G 4, 126, 136 

Alta G 103, 104 

Altamira 102 

Amanda 162 

Amelia G 100 

Amos W 162 

Ann 20. 42, 43, 44, 53, 54 

Anna 23, 26, 56 

Anne . 20, 24, 28, 29, 31, 32, 38, 40 

68 

Annie 27, 79 

Annie R in 

Arthur T . . 48 

Avery 21 

Avice 34, 35 

Benjamin . 20, 23, 38, 51, 53, 66, 
78, 79A 



Benjamin L, 80 

Bertha L 89, 168, 170 

Betsy 103 

Betsy A 172 

44 Captain " . 81, 81A, 81B, 106, 162 

Carlos C 44, 47 

Carrie J 143 

Carrie M 131 

Catherine B 95 

Charles 50 

Charles A 127, 131 

Charles C 92 

Charles F 46 

Charles 1 95 

Charles L 102, 116, 117 

Charles S 88, 96 

Charles T 45 

Charlotte 54, 57 

Christopher, G 47 

Clara 59 

Clarinda R 82 

Clifton 43, 49 

" Colonel " 142 

Constance H 47 

Cooney 61 

Cora M n3, 168, 169 

Cordelia E 82, 83 

Cyrus 81, 162 

Delmer T 117 

Dewey, W 88, 92 

Diana 148 

" Doctor" 80, 81A 

Dorothy ... 42 

Dorothy A 46 



I IO 



Wheat Genealogy. 



Duane D 97 

Edgar G 96 

Edgar J 94 

Edmond 23, 26 

Edward 43, 81, 173 

Edward E 56, 173 

Edward M 81, 173 

Edwin R 126, 127, 130 

Edwin W 111,112 

Effie C 103 

" Elder" 80 

Eliza 44, 81, rro, 154 

Eliza A ... 143 

Eliza E 47 

Eliza O 126, 138 

Elizabeth, 20, 24, 28, 45, 52, 61,67, 
77, 79, 80, 127 

Elizabeth S 45 

Ella T 97 

EllaS 113 

Ellen P 46 

Ellen J 142, 152 

Elmer J 117 

Emerson .142 

Emilie L . . . . . 136, 137 

Emily 56, 142 

Emily C 136 

Emma 48 

Emma E 97 

Emma L 48 

Emma R 97, 98 

Ernest D 89, 90 

Ernest G . . 46 

Ernest 46 

Esther H 34 

Ethel C 113 

Ethel F 148 

Ethel M 48 

Ethel N 91 

Eunice 81, 82 

Eva S 93 

Evelyn L, in 

Fannie E 56 



Florence A 48 

Floyd B T42, 148, 152 

Floyd M 151 

Frances . . 30, 31, 32, 44, 144 

Frances A 46 

Frances E 164, 166 

Fsances L 92 

Frances M 164 

Francis 48, 54, 69 

Francis I 88, 95 

Francis M 102. [15 

Frank I 95 

Frank J 4, no, 113 

Frederick S 45 

George, Sir 31, 34 

George 54, 55,56 

George A 126, 141 

George D 89 

George G 88, 93 

George J 93 

George N ... 58 

George W 4, 82, 88 

Gerard S . 46 

Gertrude 49 

Godfrey C 45 

Grace A 91 

Grace M 127 

Hannath 70 

Hannah . 2, 55, 70, 72, 79, 79A, 80 

Hannah A 5 8 

Hannah R 80 

Hardin 142, 143 

Hardin H 164. 167 

Harold D 96 

Harry E 89 

Hartson L 4, 162, 164 

Helen S 143, J 47 

Henary 20 

Henry 19, 21, 23, 24, 44 

Henry A 46 

Henry of Walsall 19 

Herbert L 162 

Herbert O 172 

Homer E 168 



Wheat. 



hi 



Horatio S 168 

Howard I 4, 91 

Howard R no, 11 1 

Ida May 99 

Irving H 96 

Isabella 23, 26, 28, 38, 39 

Jacob, Sir 34 

James 20, 43, 44, 80 

James C 46 

James E 88, 94 

James F 99 

James M 47, 48, 82, 99 

James W 97 

Jane 58, 61, 62, 70 

Jemima 79 

Jennison 78 

Jeremiah 20, 23 

Jeremie 23, 38 

J. Frank 4, no, 113 

Joan 20 

Jobe 23 

Johannes 23, 26 

Joh'es 23 

John, 20, 21, 28, 42, 44, 49, 51, 52, 

53, 54, 63, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73, 75, 

77A, 78A, 80 

John B 46 

John F 58, no, 113 

John H 46 

John J 45, 46 

John T 50 

John T., Sir 34, 50 

Joseph . . . 38, 51, 53, 74, 75, 77A 

Josephine A 91 

Joshua, 61, 67, 70, 70A, 70F, 71, 
73, 75, 76, 77 

Judith 23 

Julia 142 

Julia A no, 114 

Laura E 171 

Laura G 45 

Laura M 56 



Lauretta 149 

Lauretta A 94 

Lemira F 4, 82 

Lena E 143, J 45 

Leonard H 143, 144 

Leo C 172 

Leroy C 162 

Lewis C in 

Lillian E 15 1 

Lizzie A 92 

Lois O 89 

Louisa 47, 132 

Louisa A 97 

Louisa E 126, 133 

Lucy R 127, 128 

Luella . . 148, 150 

Luna 94 

Lydia 7§, 96 

Lydia E 115 

Lydia F 92 

Lydia M 168 

Mabel 148 

Mabel G 46 

Margaret 79 

Margaret H 46 

Margery H 130 

Maria 23, 81, 118 

Maria L 82 

Marion E 162, 163 

Marjorie E 100 

Martha 23, 28, 38, 142 

Martha E 112 

Mary, 20, 32, 38, 43, 44, 53- 54, 55, 

78,81 
Mary A . . . .46, 82, 97, 101, 141 

Mary E 46, 143, J 46, 149 

Mary G 47 

Mary J 47, 136, 153 

Mary L 47, 127, 129 

Mary P 116 

Matthew 51 

Maud T 141 

Maude 90 

May 149 



112 



Wheat Genealogy. 



Maysie T 49 

Merton i7 2 

Merton T 148, 149 

Mildred M . . . 100 

Millicent M 164 

Minnie 60 

Minnie F 117 

Morris L 142, 153 

Morton E 116, 117 

Moses 61, 70, 74, 77, 78A 

"Mr" 65 

Murray C 131 

Nellie I 164, 165 

Nicholas 21, 23, 61 

Nina E 9 1 

Nora E 13° 

Oliver 21, 23 

Orton W 162, 172 

Oscar D 136 

Oscar F 126, 132 

Peg 62 

Phebey 20 

Porter A 4, 162, 168 

Prudence 23, 38 

Rachel 97 

Rebecca 20, 70, 73, 75, 80 

Richard 20, 21, 23 

Roscoe V 60 

Roscoe C 168, 171 

Ruth L 131 

Ruth M 126 

Sally 80 

Salmon 78 

Samuel, n, 64, 70, 70E, 71, 73, 78, 

80 
Samuel (Eng.) n, 20, 23, 38, 47, 

53, 54 

Samuel C 58, 59 

Sarah, 20, 30, 32, 44, 53, 55, 58, 70, 

76 



Sarah A 130 

Sarah E 127 

Sarah h 46 

Selen B 173 

Sibyl A 82 

Silas 4, 81, 8iC, 82, 82A 

Silas C 88, 91 

Solomon. .2, 3, 5, 78, 79, 80, 81, 126 

"Squire" 102 

Susan M 102, 105 

Susanna 23, 38 

Sylvanus 82, 97 

Sylvester 4, 81, 142 

Tamzen 70, 70B, 70E, 70I 

Thomas, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, 42, 
43, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 80 

Thomas A 58 

Thomas C 44 

Thomas E 46, 50 

Thomas J 50, 61, 102, 103 

Thomas M 48 

Thomas W 47 

Thomasine 23, 26, 70, 701 

Thompson H 142 

Tracy E 172 

Walter D 88, 92 

Wealtha L 136 

Willard D 93 

William, 2, 4, 5, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 

27, 28, 43, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 80, 

Sod, 81, 102, 162 

William B 102, no 

William D 82, 88, 89 

William G 59 

William H 58, 60, 90 

William of Coventry . . . . 19, 27 

William of Glympton 28 

Willie 93 

Zelda B 60 



Persons. 



113 



PERSONS 



Abbot 67 

Abell 158 

Ackworth 34 

Adair 93A 

Adam 7 

Adams 20, 70G 

Amner 128 

Andrews . 119 

Armson 23, 38 

Ashling 58 

Austin 105 

Ayer 167 

Bailey 23, 24, 27 

Baker 70K, 71, 93A 

Ball 70G 

Ballard 71 

Banks 30 

Barber 139 

Barnabee 23, 40 

Barnett 25, 35, 36, 37 

Bearman 20 

Bender 166 

Benedict 160 

Benton 88, 88A 

Bigelow 70E, 76, 118 

Biket 80F 

Bilbruck 57 

Billings no 

Bird 92 

Blair 80H 

Blanchard 124 

Ble (du) io, n, 14, 10 

Blee (de) 11, 19 

Bogie 159 

Bolles . 4, 81, 81D, 81E, 81F. 82A, 
102, 162 

Bolter 156 

Bomhoff 149 

Bonaparte, N no 

Bond 18 

Booth 153 



Boyd 102, 106 

Boyer 93A 

Bourn ua 



Boynton 121B 

Bradshaw 93 

Bridge 88A 

Brigham 143 

Bristowe 46 

Brown 46, 70E, 71, 77A 

Brownell 46 

Bulkley 70A 

Bull 61,75 

Burnap 79B 

Burrell 57 

Burville 32 

Cadwell 82, 82B 

Calvert 69 

Camden . 23 

Canning 36 

Carew 79A 

Carroll 130 

Chadwick 78 

Chamberlain 20 

Chapman 61 

Cheever 76C 

Chudlowe 23, 39 

Clark 82B, 85, 95, 151 

Cleveland 128, 152 

Cockshutt 42, 43 

Coddington 80F 

Colburn 80 J 

Collins 47 

Colvert 88A 

Conkling 92 

Connant 62 

Conqueror, The 77D 

Cook 113 

Cooper 44 

Cowles 119 

Crawford 131 

Cruchloe 23, 38 



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Wheat Genealogy. 



Cunningham 162 

Curtis 81B, 153 

Dane 7°A 

Daniels 157 

Darrak 80F 

Davidson 104 

Davies 37 

Davis 136 

Decker 108, 125 

De Forest 132 

Dewey 82, 82B 

Dibble 160, 161 

Diefendorf 114 

Dighton 23, 40 

Drake, 

Abial, Jr 4, 83 

Abial, Sr 83, 142 

Amy 142 

Cordelia, E 83 

Dorothy L, 84 

Dwight B 4, 83, 86 

Ella E 83 

Emily F 86 

Frances L 83, 87 

Grace C 86 

Julia 84 

Mattie M 84 

Maria 164 

Mary M 86 

Nellie E 84 

William A 83, 84 

Drum 134 

Dwight 82B 

Eastham 56 

Edgecombe 81 E 

Endicott 62 

Ensome 63 

Evans . . 4, 169 

Eve 7, 80H 

Eveland 145 

Fairbanks 88A 

Farrington 117 



Faulkner 129 

Finch 130, 168 

Fischer 122 

Fish 165 

Fisher 88A 

Fitch 152, 155 

Flagg 77 

Fleming 171 

Foot 99 

Foote 23, 40 

Forsyth . . . 135,138, 139, 140 

Frail 146 

Franklyn 137 

Frothingham 87 

Fuller 101 

Gareway 23 

Gay 88, 88A 

Gibson 49 

Gillett 105, 171 

Glover 77A 

Gould 32, 163 

Green 3, 79 

Greenoway 61 

Griswold 126 

Hackley 121B 

Hall 96 

Hamner 20 

Hampton • . 20 

Harrison 46 

Harwood 70G 

Hathorne 62 

Hawes 82B 

Hawley 173 

Heath 44 

Henry VIII 20 

Henchman 80J 

Henniston 146 

Hill 61, 71, 76, 77A, 137 

Hoffman 123 

Hollenbeck 147 

Horton 79A 

Howard 90 

Howell 81E 



Persons. 



ii5 



Howes 143 

Hoyt in 

Hubbard 70G 

Hubbell 116 

Huntting 77A 

Hyde 59 

Jackson 117 

Jefferson 16 

Jenkins 47, 129 

Jenkinson 30 

Jenner 93, 93A 

Jennison 78 

Jester 96 

Jesup 107, 132 

Joans 70G 

Johnson 142 

Joardan 161 

Jumper 28 

Kempe 23, 38 

King Philip 74, 82B 

Knapp 164 

Knight, 47 

Leach 89 

Ledoit 120 

Lennard 23 

Liljeghren 145 

Lines 148 

Lloyd 33 

Loveland 97 

Mabie 127 

Mackey 56 

Madden 151 

Mann , . . 97, 155 

Mansfield 77, 77A, 77C 

Martyn 79A 

Marvin 84 

Masten 100 

Matson 80D 

Maynard 142 

McClung 85 

Melchizedek 5 

Merrick 86 



Middleton 135, 138 

Millet 61 

Millikan 106 

Milnes 44 

Minor 80F 

Morningstar 123 

Morse 30, 139 

Mortone L-< 23, 39 

Multer 147 

Munger 80F 

Murdack 23, 38 

Murphy 94 



Napoleon no 

Needham 77, 77C, 77I) 

Neff . . ' 136 

Newby 58 

Noble S2B, 106 

Norman 77D 

Northway 158 

Noyes 107 

Ord 68 

Osboru 4, 134 

Overbury 7 

Owens 131 

Page 31 

Palfry 62 

Palmer 5 2 » *7 2 

Parish 173 

Pearson 47 

Pierson M4 

Penoyer 57 

Perrin 89 

Philip, "King," 74. 82B 

Pierce 95 

Pierson 144 

Potter 148 

Prime & Wheat 103 

Prince of Wales 3 



Quincy 



23, 24, 27 



n6 



Wheat Genealogy. 



Raleigh 47 

Ramsden 53 

Read ...••• Sol, 8oJ 

Redcliffe (de) ". 36 

Reddick 93^ 

Reed 20, 141 

Reynolds 101, 125 

Rhinehart 156 

Richard III ; 22 

Richardson .... 80, 80E, 80I, 80J 

Richmond no, 115 

Riggs 127 

Ritzmaun no 

Robinson 55, 79 A, 113 

Rogers 162 

Romaine 91 

Rooke 55 

Root SiE, 82B 

Rowell 98 

Roworth 45 

Sambourne 43. 49 

Sanderson 45 

Sanford 88A 

Sansom 45 

Sarles 154 

Savage 17, 18, 77C 

Sawbridge 20, 31 

Scobell 45 

Scott 80H 

Seaney 23, 38 

Sears, 

Azuba A 1 25 

Benjamin 118 

Benjamin C 118, 124 

Carrie M 119, 122 

David 118 

Effie 119, 123 

Ella M 120 

Frank C 124, 125 

Frank V 120 

George E 124 

George R 118 

Howard W 120 



Lena B 120 

Leonora V 125 

Maria 118, 119 

Martha E 119, 121 

Mary A 118 

Rhoda F 1 24 

Sendol B 119, 120 

Silas E 124 

Susan M 118 

Sylvester 118 

Wilbur L 120 

William 118, 119 

Sharp 161 

Shaw 34 

Shepard 81, 81E 

Sheppard 150 

Shropshire . . 150 

Sibbert 131 

Sibley 171 

Simons 124 

Simpson 54 

Skutt 28 

Smith 

Abigail 152 

Alta 152 

Alta M 105 

Carrie J 109 

Charles F 105, 108 

Cleveland E 152 

Darins 105 

David 163 

E. Cleveland 152 

Edson L . . . 152 

Ellen J 152 

Emma L 163 

Fred E 105 

George C 152 

Gertrude 106 

Hannah A 106 

Herbert L 163 

Ida E 105, 107 

Irving W 105, 106 

J. D 152 

Jo 61 



Persons. 



it7 



Joel W IQ 5 

John io 5 

Lillian M l S* 

Louesa x "3 

Lura B Io8 

Lydia io 5 

Manzer C 4, l62 > 163 

Marion E l6 3 

Marion L Io8 

Peter x 5 2 

Sallie Io6 

Silas IQ 5 

Susan M io 5 

Thomas io 5 

William T 105, 108 

Snyder 6o 



Sommer 



166 



Southworth l68 

Sprague 7° 

Stagg 6l 

Stalker I° 6 

Stevens ^4? 

Stewart l6 9 

Stone . .- 23, 24, 28, 39 

Stow 7oG 

Strattou 70S. 7<>G, 72, 75 

Strong II2 

Sullivan 3 

Sykes 44 

Taf t io 3 

Taler 79^ 

Taylor 79 B 

Thompson 103, 104, 121A 

Thorold 2 9 

Treadwell 86, 116 

Tristram T 4* 

Trumper I2 2 

Tupper io 3 

Tuttle J 7 2 

Upham 76 

Vincent 23 



Waite 9 

Wakeman *44 

Walker io 9 

Walton 77C 

Waring 45, " 2 

Washburn i° 8 

Washington l6 

Watkins 4^ 

Weaver DI 

Webb m 

Wells 43, 44, 152 

Wescott T 57 

Wheat. See Wheat Index 

Wheatbread 9 

Wheatley I2 , 17 

Wheaton 12, 17 

Wheeler 74, 75, 81E 

Wheet J 7, i 8 

Whichcote 47 

White 88A, 109, 159 

Whiting 8od, Sol 

Whitman 133. T 34, I3 6 

Whitney I2 o, 170 

Whitten l6 5 

Wihtebrord 9 

Willard 7oA 

Willet 6 5 

Williams 46, 81E 

William the Conqueror . . . . 77 D 

Wilson 2 ° 

Wolcott io 2 , Io6 

Wood 

Carrie J 155, J 57 

Charles E ^8 

Charles I 155. 156 

Charles J J 54 

Edson S J 55 

Eliza J 54 

Elizabeth 81E 

Estella D 158, 159 

Florence M r 5 6 

Frederick A x 5 8 

George F J 58 

Jennie F J 58 



ti8 



Wheat Genealogy. 



Lauretta C . . . 94 

Mary E in 

Mary J 154, 160 

Rufus S 154, 155 

Sarah J 158 

Susan M 155 

William H 154, 158 

Woolby 94 



Wooly 75 

Wright 76, 91, 100 

Wynkoop 56 

Yager 140 

Yarrington 90 

Young 149 



Places. 



ti9 



Abbey Wood, Eng 5° 

Alford, Eng 5* 

Alton, 111 56 

America 56, 57 

Ames, la i° 6 

Andes, N. Y, 172 

Annapolis Royal • • 67 

Ascot, Eng 3 6 

Ashford, Ct 79 A 

Aswarba, Eng 47 

Atlanta, Ga 9 8 

Austerlitz H2 



Bahama Is 81A 

Batavia, 111 io 7 

Beenham, Eng 21 

Belden, N. Y 138, 140 

Berks, co. Eng 19. «. 37 

Bermuda Is 78A 

Birmingham, Eng 19 

Boston, Mass. . . 3, 6 3> 78A, 79A 

Bovine, N. Y 88 

Boxley, Eng 3 2 

Bracknell, Eng 37 

Brattleboro, Vt "9 

Brazil, Ind 100 

Bridgewater 121 

Bristol, R. 1 62 

Broderick, Kan 89 

Brooklyn, N. Y 9 1 . J 4* 

Brudenham, Eng 33 

Bucks co., Eng 3 2 , 33 

California *73 

Cambridge, Mass. . . . 77 A , 78A 

Cambridgeshire 5 1 

Camden, N. J *49 

Cannonsville I 3 I 

Canterbury, Ct 78A 

Cape Porpoise, Me 81 E 

Carlinville, 111 58 

Carrolton, 111 57 



PLACES, 

Catskill, N. Y. 81C 

Cawthorne, Eng 43 

Cayuga co., N. Y. II 

Cedar Rapids, la. 123 

Charles City, la. . . . 105, 106, 108 

Charleston, S. C 3 

Charlestown, Mass ... 77^, 80J 

Chatham, Ct 80 

Chelmsford, Mass 80J 

Chicago, 111 87, 107 

Clearwater, Cal 5 8 

Clinton, Mass 101 

Clinton, N. Y 99 

Closter, N. J 91 

Coldham, Eng 5 1 

Colfax, la 153 

Concord, Mass. . . 18, 61, 70-80, 80 

Connecticut 2, 4 

Contentment, Mass 88A 

Cottonwood, Cal 106 

Corfe Castle, Eng 30 

Coventry, Eng . 19, 23, 24, 25, 38 

Croton, N. Y. (Treadwell) . 88, 162, 

105, 173 



Dakota City, Neb 158, 160 

Danbury, Ct 88A 

Davenport, N. Y 105 

Dedham, Mass 7 8 , 88A 

Delhi, N. Y I5 2 

Delta, Colo 87 

Denmark . 7 

Des Moines, la 59 

Doncaster, Eng 57 

Dorchester, Mass 82B 

Dorset co. , Eng 3° 

Downsville, N. Y 170 

Dracut, Mass 80J 

"Eastbeary," Ct 80F 

East Glastonbury, Ct 80A 

East Markham, Eng 53 

Enfield, Ct no 



, 



i2o 



Wheat Genealogy. 



England. .3, 7, 8, 11 , 14, 19,58, 
61, 62, 70A, 70F 

Erie, Pa 146 

Essex, Eng 77 D 

Exeter, Eng 77C 

Exeter, N. H 101 

Fair Valley, Okla 89, 90 

Fenton, N. Y 140 

Fernando, Cal 94 

Fort Sill 106 

France 8, 11 

Franklin, N. Y . .4, 79, 80, 81, 82, 
86, 88, 97, 105, 137, 142, 145, 146, 
147, 154, 155, 157, I7*i !72, 173 

Genessee Forks 89 

Georgetown 137 

Georgia 16 

Glastonbury, Ct 80 

Glenside, Penn 149 

Gloucester co., Eng. 19, 21, 30, 34 
Glympton, Eng . 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 

32, 37 

Gosberton, Eng 51 

Great Penton, Eng 34 

Greensburg 58, 60 

Groton, Ct SiE 

Groton, Mass 74, 77 

Hammond, La 115 

Hampstead, Eng 77D 

Handsome Brook . . 81C, 82A, 83, 

154 

Hanwell, Eng 50 

Hartford, Ct 80F, 81E 

Harvard College 17 

Harmiston, Eng 29 

Hastings, Eng 6 

Hastings. N. Z 58 

Haverhill, Mass 105 

Heralds College ... 22, 23, 24, 25 

Hertfordshire, Eng 50 

Hettick, 111 57 

Holliston, Mass 95 



Hopkinton, Mass 79B 

Horsemonden, Eng 70 A 

Illinois 3 

Ireland 154 

Kansas City, Mo 58, 59, 60 

Kansas City, Kan 109 

Kent co., Eng 30, 82 

Kingston, Eng 30 

Kortright, N. Y 128 

Lancaster, Eng n 

Laneham, Eng 54, 55, 57 

Lebanon, Ct 157 

Lechlade, Eng. 34 

Leicester, Eng 51 

Lenora, Minn 99 

Leonta, N. Y 169 

Liberty Corner, N. J 92 

Lichfield, Eng 21, 24, 27 

Lime, Ct 80F 

Lincoln, Eng 21, 29, 47 

Lincoln co., Eng 51, 19 

Litchfield, Ct 88A 

Liverpool, Eng 46, 19 

Logan, Iowa 156 

London, Eng . . 3, 19, 24, 28, 29, 
31. 43, 5o, 51, 81E 

Los Angeles, Cal 93, 94 

Lynn, Mass . . 77, 77A, 77C, 77D 

Madison, N. J 91 

Madison, N. Y 143 

Maiden, Mass 76 

Malta, Island no 

Manchester 61 

Mansfield, Ct 80F 

Maquoketa, la . . 118, 119, 120, 122, 

124, 125 

Marlboro, Ct 81 

Maryland 69 

Masonville, N. Y . . . 126, 133, 135, 

136, 168 
Massachusetts Bay 63 



Places. 



121 



Medora, 111 56 

Melbourne, Victoria ». . 46 

Melrose, Mass 101 

Mendham, Eng 77 D 

Mendon, Mass 79 A 

Meredith, N. Y . . . . 118, 127, 160 

Middleburg, N. Y no 

Middlesex co., Eng 19, 20 

Middlesex co., Conn 80B 

Middlesex co., Mass 77A 

" Middle Temple " 23, 28 

Mill Brook 70B, 70C 

Millville, N. J . . 148. 149, 150, 151, 

152 

Minneapolis 165, 167 

Monson, Mass 86 

Narraganset 74 

Narrows, Fla 124 

Needham, Eng 77D 

Needham, Mass . . 78, 78A, 79, 79B 

Newark, Eng 44 

Newark, N. Y 144 

New Amsterdam 65 

New England 70, 70F 

New Hampshire 67 

New Jersey 66 

New London, Ct . . 78B, 80F, 81B, 

81E 

New Milford, Ct 86 

New York 34, 83, 92 

Newton, Mass 78A 

New Zealand 58 

Norfolk, Eng 77D 

Normandy 7 

Northampton 105 

Northeast, N. Y 88A 

Northfield, N. Y 84, 95, in 

Norton, Eng 57 

Norwalk, Ct 141 

Norwich, Ct 78A, 79A, 80F 

Nottingham, Eng 49 

Nottingham, co. Eng . . 19, 42, 53, 

54, 55 



Oakend, Eng 32 

Oakland, Cal 137 

Odell, Eng 70A 

Oneonta, N. Y 101, 104 

Osage, la 108 

Owego, N. Y . . . . 80C, 80D, 82A 

Oxford, Ct 80F 

Oxford co., Eng . . . 24, 30, 31, 33 

Paddington, Eng 20 

Palmyra, N. Y 143 

Palo Alto, Cal 161 

Philadelphia 68, 152 

Pittsburg, Pa 170 

Plainview, 111 58 

Plymouth, Eng 81E 

Portugal no 

Pottawatomie co., Kan 93 

Prescott, Arizona 84 

Prince George co., Md 69 

Providence, R. I 79 A 

Pueblo, Colo 84, 85 

Rampton, Eng 53, 54 

Randolph co., N. C 106 

Rauschenburg 122 

Redlands, Cal 99, 100 

Retford, Eng 41, 42, 49 

Rhode Island 64 

Richland, la 106 

Roaring Brook 102 

Ropesley, Eng 21 

Roxbury, Mass 7 8A 

Sacketts Harbor, N. Y 80C 

St. Bartholomew 81B 

St. Edmonds, Eng 79D 

St. Joseph, Mo 93A 

St. Louis, Mo 56 

St. Mary's, Kan 93 

Salem, Mass 62 

Salisbury, Ct 88A 

Salisbury, Eng 28 

Sandwich, Eng 82B 

Savanna, 111 123 



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Saybrook, Ct 78A, 79A 

Scandinavia 8 

Schaffhausen no 

Selma, Ala 121 

Sharon, Ct 88A 

Shawnee, Okla 93A 

Sheffield, Eng.,41, 44, 45, 46, 55, 56 

Shell Rock, la 109 

Sidney, N. Y 126 

Sidney Center, N. Y . .4, 127, 128, 
129, 130, 132, 136 

Smyrna 29 

Sommerville, 111 56 

South America 81 

Southwark, Eng 61, 70A 

Spain no 

Springfield, Mass 77C 

Springfield, 161 

Stafford co., Eng . . . 11, 19, 23, 25 

Stamford, Ct in 

Stockton, Cal 95 

Stow, Eng 21 

Stratfield, Eng 21 

Stratford, Eng 23, 27 

Suffolk co., Eng 77D 

Summit, N. J 91 

Suton-on-Trent 58 

Switzerland no 

Tallapoosa, Ga 115 

Thames river 19 

Theale, Eng 21 

Tilehurst, Eng 21 

Tolland, Ct 80F 

Topeka, Kan 93 

Tread well, N. Y . 4, 88, 96, 97, 102, 
103, no, in, 112, 113, 114, 116, 
117, 134, 162, 164, 165, 166, 168, 
169, 171, 173 



Uddersfield, Eng 53 

Uxbridge, Mass 79, 79B 

Virginia 3, 14 

Walcot, Eng 30 

Walla Walla 160 

Walsall, Eng. . . 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 

Wanlip, Eng 51, 52 

Warwick co., Eng 23 

Warwick, R. 1 63 

Watertown, Mass . 76, 80J, 78, 78A 

Watertown, N. Y 125 

Wells, Maine 81 E 

West Delhi, N. Y 104 

Westfield, Mass . . . . 82, 82B 
Westford, Mass. . . . 79A, 80, 80J 

West Indies 78A, 81, 81B 

West Jersey 66 

West Meredith, N. Y 163 

Westmoreland, Kan 93 

Weston, Mass 77 A 

West Springfield .... 102, 105 

White Store, N. Y 139 

Wheatley, Eng 56 

Wickselme, Eng 30 

Willenhall, Eng 141 

Windham, Ct 79, 79B 

Windsor, Ct 80A, 82 B 

Wisbeach, Eng 51 

Woburn, Mass 76, 80J 

Woodbine, la 159 

Woodford, N. Y 112 

Woodhaven, N. Y 95 

Woodstock, Eng 31, 32 

Wurtemburg 93 A, 166 

York, Eng 45 

Yorkshire, Eng 43, 53, 57 

Youngstown, 131 



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